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 isles where circling Neptune strays;

Whether the vast and boisterous main

Or lake’s more limpid waves they stem,

How gladly on thy waves I gaze!

How blest to visit thee again!

I scarce believe, while rapt I stand,

That I have left the Thynian fields

And all Bithynia far behind,

And safely view my favourite land.

Oh bliss, when care dispersing yields