Found in so many volumes far and near,

There's no occasion you should find them here.

Yet something may remain perchance to chime

With reason, and, what's stranger still, with rhyme.[eq]

Even this thy genius, Canning![332] may permit,

Who, bred a statesman, still wast born a wit,

And never, even in that dull House, couldst tame550

To unleavened prose thine own poetic flame;

Our last, our best, our only orator,

Even I can praise thee—Tories do no more: