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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[THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSLATION, BY DUNCOMBE, OF

HORACE’S ODE TO FORTUNE,

Of which the above Ode is a parody.

O Goddess, whose propitious sway

Thy Antium’s favourite sons obey;

Whose voice from depth of woe recalls

The wretch, and triumphs turns to funerals;

From Thee, rich crops the needy swain

Implores. Thee, sovereign of the main,

The mariner invokes, who braves