Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin / Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

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For yet—though firm and fearless in the cause

Of pure Religion, Liberty, and Laws,—

Though TRUTH approved, though fav’ring VIRTUE smiled,

Some doubts remained: WE yet were unreviled.

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Thanks to thy zeal! those doubts at length are o’er!

Thy suffrage crowns our wish!—WE ask no more

To stamp with sterling worth each honest line,

Than Censure, cloth’d in vapid Verse like thine!

But say—in full blown honours dost thou sit