The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
 |
 | The Age Reviewed |  |
England's true “Patriot” scorns all plot and sect,
No maniac he, to riot or project;
No hot-brain'd schemer for a scheming clan,—
He sees in ev'ry face his fellow man!
His country deeming 'bove all hate or pelf,
He makes her cause no shelter for himself;
To public right, and public freedom true,
He takes the gen'ral, not the partial view:
In peace,—no crafty oracle for knaves,
Or saucy trumpet for the mob that raves;
In war, the first to fill the hero's part,
He wields his weapon with a British heart;
Whate'er his rank, supplantless in one cause,—
No clamours shake him, and no fear withdraws:
Like some grey ocean rock, whose wave-lash'd base
Awes back the plunging waters as they race,—
Though round it, swelling surges bound and rise,
Its steady top still beacons to the skies!
No maniac he, to riot or project;
No hot-brain'd schemer for a scheming clan,—
He sees in ev'ry face his fellow man!
His country deeming 'bove all hate or pelf,
He makes her cause no shelter for himself;
99
He takes the gen'ral, not the partial view:
In peace,—no crafty oracle for knaves,
Or saucy trumpet for the mob that raves;
In war, the first to fill the hero's part,
He wields his weapon with a British heart;
Whate'er his rank, supplantless in one cause,—
No clamours shake him, and no fear withdraws:
Like some grey ocean rock, whose wave-lash'd base
Awes back the plunging waters as they race,—
Though round it, swelling surges bound and rise,
Its steady top still beacons to the skies!
| The Age Reviewed | |