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.

by Unknown

Let thy pure breath revive the extinguished Lies!

Mistakes, Mis-statements, now so oft o’erthrown,

Rebuild, and prop with nonsense of thy own!

Pervert our meaning, and misquote our text—

And furnish us a motto for the next!

ODE TO LORD MOIRA.

I.

If on your head[^[62]] some vengeance fell,

Moira, for every tale you tell,