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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Sweet Gun-Boats, with your gallant crew,

Tempt not the rocks of Saint Marcou;

Beware the Badger’s bloody pennant,

And that d——d invalid Lieutenant!

LYRICS OF HORACE. ODE XIV., BOOK I.

TRANSLATED BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM.

O Ship, fresh billows soon again

Shall bear thee to the boisterous main!

Firm, keep the port. See, see thy side,

Without a single oar to guide!