[111] This and the preceding line not in the earlier versions. In place of them the Gazette has the lines:
"Spoil'd of their shrouds and o'er Canadia's plains
Be hung aloft to terrify in chains."
[112] The Gazette version ends the poem from this point as follows:
"Let Baker's head be snatch'd from infamy,
And Carleton's Popish scull be fixt on high,
And all like him o'er St. John's castle swing,
To show that freedom is no trifling thing."
[113] "Their tyrant of a king."—Ed. 1786.
THE VERNAL AGUE
Where the pheasant[114] roosts at night,
Lonely, drowsy, out of sight,[115]
Where the evening breezes sigh
Solitary, there stray I.
Close along the shaded stream,
Source of many a youthful dream,
Where branchy cedars dim the day,
There I muse, and there I stray.