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.

by Unknown

She sees the mutual passion’s flame confessed:

Where’er he moves, she sees his tall limbs trace

Internal Angles[^[244]] equal at the base;

Again she doubts him: but produced at will,

She sees th’ external Angles equal still.

Say, blest Isosceles! what favouring power,

Or love, or chance, at night’s auspicious hour,

While to the Asses-Bridge[^[245]] entranced you strayed,

Led to the Asses-Bridge the enamoured maid?—

The Asses-Bridge, for ages doomed to hear