The Court gave him, ’twas all he wished, a place.
No farther seek his merit to disclose,
Or draw the annual increase to his pelf;
Hopeless alike his fame and pence repose,
Lost to the Court, the office, and himself.
From The New Tory Guide. London. J. Ridgway, 1819.
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Elegy.
(For the “Mirror,” 1825.)
The pealing clock proclaims the close of day,