in the  Nun's priest's tale of  Chanticleer

wrote verse that will survive

end the  17th C and see the 18th cynical be

They lie side by side /Dear Ovid and sweet Poe 

whose  music   thrives/ who'd guess shook hands , Odso 

16th to 19th C : a few tasty treats

some of the rarer sort

Hear  this Roman host , from Ovid's best , through  Dryden's ghost 

And Pope's fine friend , speaks here of those light years , and then of the end.

We visit , an original partly copied : and some  loving practitioners  of Poetry

For Ovid and Endymion , we hear a new begin'on