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

“Make now YOUR CHOICE! The terms we give,

Desponding Britons, hear!

These fetters on your hands receive,

Or in your hearts the spear.”

Can we forget our old renown;

Resign the empire of the sea;

And yield at once our sovereign’s crown,

Our ancient laws and liberty?

Shall thus the fierce destroyer’s hand

Pass unresisted o’er our native land?