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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When did the owl, descending from her bow’r,

Crop, ’midst the fleecy flocks, the tender flow’r;

Or the young heifer plunge, with pliant limb,

In the salt wave,[^[136]] and fish-like strive to swim?

The same with plants[^[137]]—potatoes ’tatoes breed—[^[138]]

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Uncostly cabbage springs from cabbage seed;

Lettuce to lettuce, leeks to leeks succeed;

Nor e’er did cooling cucumbers presume