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 give us Death—or Victory!”

IV.

Soon shall the proud invaders learn,

When bent on blood and plunder,

That British bosoms nobly burn

To brave their cannon’s thunder:

Low lie those heads, whose wily arts

Have plann’d the world’s undoing!

Our vengeful blades shall reach those hearts

Which seek our country’s ruin;