The Poetical Works of the Right Hon. George Canning Comprising the Whole of his Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems |
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Yet, venial vices, in a milder age,
Could rouse the warmth of Pope's satiric rage;
The doting miser, and the lavish heir,
The follies, and the foibles of the fair,
Sir Job, Sir Balaam, and old Euclio's thrift,
And Sappho's diamonds, with her dirty shift,
Blunt, Charteris, Hopkins;—meaner subjects fired
The keen-eyed Poet;—while the Muse inspired
Her ardent child—entwining as he sate,
His laurell'd chaplet with the thorns of hate.
Could rouse the warmth of Pope's satiric rage;
The doting miser, and the lavish heir,
The follies, and the foibles of the fair,
Sir Job, Sir Balaam, and old Euclio's thrift,
And Sappho's diamonds, with her dirty shift,
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The keen-eyed Poet;—while the Muse inspired
Her ardent child—entwining as he sate,
His laurell'd chaplet with the thorns of hate.
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