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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VI.

Thy sophist veil, dread goddess, wear,

Falsehood insidiously impart;

Thy philosophic train, be there,

To taint the mind, corrupt the heart;

The gen’rous virtues of our isle,

Teach us to hate and to revile;

Our glorious Charter’s faults to scan,

Time-sanction’d truths despise, and preach thy Rights of Man.

An English Jacobin.