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.

by Unknown

No. VIII.

Jan. 1, 1798.

A correspondent has adapted the beautiful poem of the Battle of Sabla, in “Carlyle’s Specimens of Arabian Poetry,” to the circumstances of the present moment. We shall always be happy to see the poetry of other times and nations so successfully engaged in the service of our country, and of the present order of society.

THE CHOICE.
(FROM THE BATTLE OF SABLA, BY JAAFER BEN ALBA.)

I.

Hast thou not seen th’ insulting foe

In fancied triumphs crown’d?

And heard their frantic rulers throw

These empty threats around?