It is—however dishonouring to us as a nation—certain that, by some fault in our commonwealth, the poor poet has not in these days, nor has had for two hundred years, a dog's chance.
可以肯定的是——尽管这对我们这个国家来说是一种耻辱——由于我们国家的一些错误,这位可怜的诗人在这些日子里, 也没有 200 年的机会, 没有狗的机会。