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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Whate’er of drugs the powerful charm could aid;

Air, earth, and sea ye searched, and where below

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Flame embryo lavas, young volcanoes[^[226]] glow,—

Gins! ye beheld appall’d th’ enchanter’s hand

Wave in dark air th’ Hypothenusal wand;

Saw him the mystic Circle trace, and wheel

With head erect, and far-extended heel;[^[227]]

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Saw him, with speed that mocked the dazzled eye,