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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Beneath his feet unheeded thunders roar;

Smiling in scorn, he sees the glittering bands

Fly with repulse and shame old Calpe’s hopeless shore.

S. 5.

Heirs or partners of their toils,

Matchless heroes still we own;

Crowned with honourable spoils

From the leagued nations won.

On their high prows they proudly stand,

The godlike guardians of their native land;