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All the talents' garland

or, A few rockets let off at a celebrated ministry. Including Elijah's mantle, the Uti Possidetis, and other poems of the same author. By eminent political characters. The third edition, greatly enlarged [by E. A. Barrett]
 

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ON AN EVENT AT PETERSBURGH.

BY METELLUS.
Grenville! to soothe Belinda's ire,
Dan Pope, he bade th'Aonian choir
Her stolen lock bewail:
Now bid the Pope of Rome, I pray,
Pour forth the elegiac lay
O'er Douglas' ravish'd tail!