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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In a Bithynian bark the Cretan waves;

Thee, Scythians, wandering far and near,

And unrelenting Dacians, fear:

The warlike sons of Italy;

Cities, and realms, and empires, worship Thee.

Mothers of barbarous monarchs dread,

And purple tyrants, lest thou tread

With spurning foot, and scatter round

The sculptured column on th’ encumbered ground;

And lest the fickle crowd should break