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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Point to one purpose,—in one object end;

The spiral grooves in smooth meanders flow,

Drags the long chain, the polished axles glow,

While slowly circumvolves the piece of beef below;

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The conscious fire[^[215]] with bickering radiance burns,

Eyes the rich joint, and roasts it as it turns.

So youthful Horner rolled the roguish eye,

Cull’d the dark plum from out his Christmas pie,

And cried, in self-applause—“How good a boy am I”.