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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Self-whirled, in quick gyrations eddying fly:

Till done the potent spell—behold him grown

Fair Venus’ emblem—the Phœnician Cone.[^[228]]

Triumphs the Seer, and now secure observes

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The kindling passions of the rival Curves.

And first, the fair Parabola[^[229]] behold,

Her timid arms, with virgin blush, unfold!

Though, on one focus fixed, her eyes betray

A heart that glows with love’s resistless sway;