Dec. 4, 1797.
We have been favoured with the following specimen of Jacobin Poetry, which we give to the world without any comment or imitation. We are informed (we know not how truly) that it will be sung at the meeting of the Friends of Freedom; an account of which is anticipated in our present paper.[[12]]
LA SAINTE GUILLOTINE.
A New Song.
ATTEMPTED FROM THE FRENCH.
Tune—“O’er the vine-covered hills and gay regions of France”.
I.
From the blood-bedew’d valleys and mountains of France,
See the Genius of Gallic INVASION advance!
Old ocean shall waft her, unruffled by storm,
While our shores are all lined with the “Friends of Reform”.[[13]]
Confiscation and Murder attend in her train,