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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Where Memory broods o’er Freedom’s earlier scene,

The Lantern bright, and brighter Guillotine;

Three gentle swains evolve their longing arms,

And woo the young Republic’s virgin charms;

And though proud Barras with the fair succeed,

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Though not in vain th’ Attorney Rewbell plead,

Oft doth th’ impartial nymph their love forego,

To clasp thy crooked shoulders, blest Lepaux!