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What violet of Summer's yester sway Usurps these clouds to throne her slender moon?

From Path Flower and Other Verses by Dargan, Olive Tilford

C. M. I’ve cause for grief: I’m scorn’d despis’d, neglected, A vulgar muse, got by some Grub-street bard, On obscure Ignorance, in gaol or stews, Usurps my place, and arrogates my honours.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)