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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And empty all thy quiver on the foe:—

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No pause—no rest—till weltering on the ground

The poisonous hydra lies, and pierced with many a wound.

Thou too!—the nameless Bard,[^[311]]—whose honest zeal

For law, for morals, for the public weal,

Pours down impetuous on thy country’s foes

The stream of verse, and many-languaged prose;

Thou too! though oft thy ill-advised dislike

The guiltless head with random censure strike,—