O CHIEF director of the growing race,
Of Rome the glory and of Rome the grace,
Me, O Quintilian, may you not forgive
Before from labour I make haste to live?
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A nice poem following the Iambic pentameter form, excepting the fifth line that becomes a quasi-tetrameter.