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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’Twas thus he strove to sap the throne.

With borrow’d arts and weapons not his own,

While Gallia clapp’d her hands, and hail’d her favourite child.

And longer had he sung—but, strange to say,

Wakefield, the dragon-fly, rush’d on;

Eager he sought the bold rebellious fray,

And burst with anger and disdain

The web of sophistry in twain

Which Godwin, patient sage! had spread

To catch the fluttering insects of the land.