A Metrical History of England Or, Recollections, in Rhyme, Of some of the most prominent Features in our National Chronology, from the Landing of Julius Caesar to the Commencement of the Regency, in 1812. In Two Volumes ... By Thomas Dibdin |
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A second time the Queen, to England's joy,
Presents her royal consort with a boy;
Frederick, may thou and the succeeding line
Of Brunswick long the royal stem entwine:
While that, unbending as it's nation's oak,
Shall scorn the pressure of a foreign yoke.
Our Eastern commerce which we've seen to thrive,
Under the guidance of unequall'd Clive,
From Cossim Ally Cawn a check receives,
Which Clive's good arm and genius soon retrieves;
And Cossim mourns the British blood he shed,
When turban'd chiefs, by basest treach'ry led,
The halls of Patna with foul murder stain'd,
And lost their honor, ne'er to be regain'd.
Presents her royal consort with a boy;
Frederick, may thou and the succeeding line
Of Brunswick long the royal stem entwine:
While that, unbending as it's nation's oak,
Shall scorn the pressure of a foreign yoke.
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Under the guidance of unequall'd Clive,
From Cossim Ally Cawn a check receives,
Which Clive's good arm and genius soon retrieves;
And Cossim mourns the British blood he shed,
When turban'd chiefs, by basest treach'ry led,
The halls of Patna with foul murder stain'd,
And lost their honor, ne'er to be regain'd.
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