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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Thee, oft the murd’rous band implores,

Swift darting on its hapless prey:

Thee, wafted from fierce Afric’s shores,

The Corsair Chief invokes to speed him on his way.

Thee, the wild Indian Tribes revere;

Thy charms the roving Arab owns;

Thee, kings, thee tranquil nations fear,

The bane of social bliss, the foe to peaceful thrones.

For, soon as thy loud trumpet calls

To deadly rage, to fierce alarms,