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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And Anguish, dropping still the life-consuming tear.

V.

Oh swiftly on my country’s head,

Destroyer, lay thy ruthless hand;

Nor yet in Gallic terrors clad,

Nor circled by the Marseilles band,

(As by th’ initiate thou art seen),

With thund’ring cannon, guillotine,

With screaming Horror’s funeral cry,

Fire, Rapine, sword, and chains, and ghastly Poverty.