65
Who reineth in his pride and rage,
To neither vice a prey,
May hope to reach a green old age,
And find therein his stay.
66
This is the full text of Moore’s witty reply, when Limerick courted him as her member, and the “boys for fun’s sake” asked him to what party he belonged:—
“I’m of no party as a man,
But as a poet am—a—tory!”
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Is England Israel? That this is so
A solemn serial aspires to show.
By most ignored, the theme is real to some,
Who gravely to the same conclusion come.
Like Ariels o’er obstacles they soar,
And if an earl is ’vert they rave the more.