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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Collected by Himself. In Ten Volumes
  

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LORD WELLINGTON AND THE MINISTERS.

1813.
So gently in peace Alcibiades smil'd,
While in battle he shone forth so terribly grand,
That the emblem they grav'd on his seal, was a child
With a thunderbolt plac'd in its innocent hand.
Oh Wellington, long as such Ministers wield
Your magnificent arm, the same emblem will do;
For while they're in the Council and you in the Field,
We've the babies in them, and the thunder in you!