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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When Peace shall check the rage of lawless Power;

Nor yet th’ insatiate thirst of blood is o’er,

Nor yet has Rapine ravaged every shore.

Exhaustless Passion feeds th’ augmented flame,

And wild Ambition mocks the voice of Shame;

Revenge, with haggard look and scowling eyes,

Surveys with horrid joy th’ expected prize;

Broods o’er each remnant of monarchic sway,

And dooms to certain death his fancied prey.

For midst the ruins of each falling state,