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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What if my Chloe cease to reign,

And Lydia her lost power regain!

Lydia.—Though Phosphor be less fair than he;

Thou wilder than the raging sea;

Lighter than down; yet gladly I

With thee would live, with thee would die.—Ed.]

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[Another version of this Ode published in the Anti-Jacobin Review, vol. 1, pp. 597–8 (the successor to the Anti-Jacobin), may perhaps not be considered out of place here. It was written by the Rev. C. E. Stewart, a constant contributor to the former journal.

The Honey-Moon of Fox and Tooke.

Donec gratus eram tibi.