With meek-eyed Sedition, the daughter of Paine;[[14]]
While her sportive Poissardes with light footsteps are seen
To dance in a ring round the gay Guillotine.[[15]]
II.
To London, “the rich, the defenceless”[[16]] she comes—
Hark! my boys, to the sound of the Jacobin drums!
See Corruption, Prescription, and Privilege fly,
Pierced through by the glance of her blood-darting eye.
While patriots, from prison and prejudice freed,
In soft accents shall lisp the Republican creed,