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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The Communes spread, the gay Departments smile,

Fair Freedom’s Plant o’ershades the laughing isle:

Fired with new hopes, the exulting peasant sees

The Gallic streamer woo the British breeze;[^[252]]

While, pleased to watch its undulating charms,

The smiling infant[^[253]] spreads his little arms.

Ye sylphs of Death! on demon pinions flit

Where the tall Guillotine is raised for Pitt:

To the poised plank tie fast the monster’s back,[^[254]]

Close the nice slider, ope the expectant sack;