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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Whither bound? (you will ask). ’Tis a question, my friend,

On which I long doubted; my doubt’s at an end.

To Arabia the Stony, Sabæa the gummy,

To the land where each man that you meet is a mummy;

To the mouths of the Nile, to the banks of Araxes,

To the Red and the Yellow, the White and the Black seas,

With telescopes, globes, and a quadrant and sextant,

And the works of all authors whose writings are extant;

With surveys and plans, topographical maps,

Theodolites, watches, spring-guns and steel-traps,