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To filch her succours and demand applause,
May future ages never learn the cheat,
Your thief-committees, and your base defeat,
Your pilfered thousands from the trusted loan,
Old Cochrane's boats, and Perga overthrown!
Where idled S--- when the Ipsariots fled?
A ling'ring dastard, though the Pasha sped;
While plotting bondsmen squabbled for their gain,
And Freedom shriek'd upon the dead-piled plain!
Thou blubb'ring sophist! baffled with thy crime,
Go, Bowring, pipe thy psalming strains sublime;
Nor let the perjured H---e or E---e dare
To lift their branded heads in Freedom's air;
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Two monuments of shame and infamy!
“------ IMPUDENCE!
Thou goddess of the palace, mistress of mistresses
To whom the costly perfumed people pray,
Strike thou my forehead into dauntless marble,
Mine eyes to steady sapphires.—Turn my visage;
And if I must needs blush, let me blush inward.”
Thou goddess of the palace, mistress of mistresses
To whom the costly perfumed people pray,
Strike thou my forehead into dauntless marble,
Mine eyes to steady sapphires.—Turn my visage;
And if I must needs blush, let me blush inward.”
Of such a nature we may reasonably suppose Mr. H---'s soliloquy to be, ere he entered Parliament after the unfortunate ------
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