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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Despots shall bow to the fasces of liberty.

Reason, philosophy, “fiddledum diddledum,”

Peace and fraternity, higgledy, piggledy,

Higgledy, piggledy, “fiddledum diddledum”.

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

SONNET.—TO LIBERTY.

Just Guardian of man’s social bliss! for thee

The paths of danger gladly would I tread:

For thee! contented, join the glorious dead,

Who nobly scorn’d a life that was not free!