Thou Morning Chronicle and Morning Post,

Whether ye make the Rights of Man your theme,

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Your country libel, and your God blaspheme,

Or dirt on private worth and virtue throw,

Still, blasphemous or blackguard, praise Lepaux!

“And ye five other wandering bards, that move

In sweet accord of harmony and love,

Coleridge and Southey, Lloyd, and Lamb & Co.

Tune all your mystic harps to praise Lepaux!