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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TRANSLATED BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM.

Borne on no weak or vulgar wing,

Upward through air, two-form’d, I’ll spring;

Nor longer grovel here, but soar

Where Envy shall pursue no more.

Not I, from humble lineage sprung,

Not I, dear Patron, whom thy tongue

Summons to fame, will fear to die,

Or bound by Styx’s fetters lie.

A rougher skin my legs assume;