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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Traitors to God and man avow’d,

By thee now rais’d aloft, now crush’d beneath the crowd.

IV.

Revenge, in blood-stain’d robe arrayed,

Immersed in gloomy joy profound;

Ingratitude, by guilt dismay’d,

With anxious eye wild glancing round,

Still on thy frantic steps attend:

With Death, thy victim’s only friend,

Injustice, to the truth severe,