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.

by Unknown

If, of thy God thou cherish ever

One wavering thought; if e’er HIS word

Has from one crime thy soul deterr’d,—

Know this,

Thou think’st amiss;

And to think true,

Thou must renounce Him all, and think anew.

II.

If, startled at the guillotine,

Trembling thou touch the dread machine;