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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O! bid thy sons (a frolic train,[^[290]]

Who under Chénier welcomed in,

With dance and song, the Guillotine).

In long procession seek the strand;

For Muskein now prepares to land,

’Scaped, Heav’n knows how, from that cursed crew

That haunt the rocks of Saint Marcou.

[TO THE PENINSULA OF SIRMIO.
UPON THE RETURN OF THE POET TO HIS COUNTRY HOUSE THERE.

Translated from Catullus.

Sirmio, of all the shores the gem,