A place or pension ever yet resigned,
Quitted the Court, like Canning, as they say,
Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?
This parody (consisting of thirty-two verses in all) originally appeared in The British Press of September 14, 1812; it was afterwards reprinted in The Spirit of the Public Journals, Volume XVI. 1813.
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Elegy in St. Stephen’s Chapel.
The candles tell the close of parting day,
The members bor’d wind slowly up to tea,
Some few to dinner plod their hungry way.
And leave the House to Dyson and to Ley.