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The Wiccamical Chaplet

a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford
Huddesford, George (1749-1809)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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SMALLER POEMS, AND ODES.
  
VERSES,
  
THE LOVE OF OUR COUNTRY.
  
ODE, WRITTEN AT THE FOOT OF SNOWDON,
  
ODE, ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND,
  
ODE, TO AN ANGRY MISTRESS.
  
ODE TO A COUNSEL IN SOUTH WALES,
  
ODE TO THE CROW.
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ODE TO THE LYRIC MUSE.
  
STROPHE I.
  
STROPHE II.
  
ANTISTROPHE I.
  
ANTISTROPHE II.
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ELEGIES, AND PLAINTIVE PIECES.
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NUGÆ POETICÆ, &c.
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SONNETS.
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INSCRIPTIONS AND EPITAPHS.
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SONGS AND BALLADS.
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MOCK-HEROICAL AND BURLESQUE PIECES, PARODIES, EPIGRAMS, &c.
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES, FRAGMENTS, &c.

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ANTISTROPHE I.

But, ah! how sunk her veiled Head,
Untimely dimm'd by Gaul's o'ershadowing pow'r
And shalt thou rise, fair isle, no more?
Thy patriot heroes sleep among the dead:
Thy gallant virtues all are fled;
Save Fortitude, sole refuge from despair.
O Gaul, oppression's blood-stain'd heir
Let me not tell how, taught by thee,
England's rude sons smote Liberty
On Vincent's sable rock, her Indian throne:
Not unaveng'd; for in her cause the sky
Storms and fiery vapours pour'd,
While Pestilence wav'd wide his tainted sword
To smite [OMITTED]
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