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By John Herman Merivale ... A new and corrected edition with some additional pieces
Merivale, John Herman (1779-1844)

 I. 
VOL. I
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VOL. II
  
ORLANDO IN RONCESVALLES,
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IMITATIONS AND PARODIES.
  
SONG.—“COULD A MAN BE SECURE.”
  
FROM THE LAY OF A TROUBADOUR.
  
SONG.—“SINCE FIRST I SAW YOUR FACE.”
  
CHARADE.
  
THE ROADMAKERS:
  
ADDITIONAL STANZAS FOR 1836.
  
SONG.—“THERE'S NOUGHT BUT CARE ON EVERY HAN'.”
  
BALLAD—IN IMITATION OF DR. WATTS.
  
THE ROAD TO GLORY.
  
A NEW SONG UPON WHIG AND TORY.
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SACRED AND SCRIPTURAL.
  
PROVERBS, CHAP. I. v. 20–31.
  
ECCLESIASTICUS, CHAP. I.
  
WISDOM OF SOLOMON, CHAP. II.
  
[Great Universal Father—Thou]
  
[Father of mercies, God of might]
  
[Almighty God! before Thy Throne]
  
[Thou Great First cause of life and light]
  
“EVIL, BE THOU MY GOOD.”
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OCCASIONAL VERSES.
  
EPITAPH.
  
ANOTHER EPITAPH.
  
TO A SON ENTERING COLLEGE.
  
FROM AN UNPUBLISHED POEM.
  
ODE ON THE DELIVERANCE OF EUROPE. 1814.
  
FOR THE GENERAL FAST. 1832.
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SONNETS. 1834–5.
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SONNET I.
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SONNET II.
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SONNET III.
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SONNET IV.
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A CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND,
  
PROLOGUE.
  
INVASION OF JULIUS CÆSAR. BEF. CHR. 55.
  
SECOND CENTURY.
  
THIRD CENTURY.
  
FOURTH CENTURY.
  
FIFTH CENTURY.
  
SIXTH CENTURY.
  
SEVENTH CENTURY.
  
EIGHTH CENTURY.
  
NINTH CENTURY.
  
THE HEPTARCHY UNITED.
  
TENTH CENTURY.
  
ELEVENTH CENTURY.
  
THE NORMAN CONQUEST.
  
TWELFTH CENTURY.
  
THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
  
FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
  
FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
  
SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
  
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
  
EPILOGUE.

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THE ROAD TO GLORY.

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Tune—“The blue bonnets over the border.”

Up, up, sons of Utility!
Up, and be stirring, boys, all round the borders!
Down, down, rank and gentility!
What are ye for, but to execute orders?
Yield, aristocracy! rule joint-stock-ocracy!
Drive, ye share-holders, your ploughshares before ye!
Mount, and make ready, then, colliers and foundry men—
Rail-roads and waggon trains whisk ye to glory.
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Rouse, rouse, Manchester, and Brummagem,
Sheffield, Newcastle, Leeds, Durham, and Bristol!
Burn lords! ransack and rummage 'em,
And at their heads hold your radical pistol!
Yield, aristocracy, &c.
March, march, Force and Rapacity!
Push on, incessant indefinite movement!
Join hands, Fraud and Mendacity!
Who'll see your face thro' the mask of improvement?
Yield, aristocracy, &c.
Speed, speed, lawyers and riflemen!
Now is the time for all manner of jobbery.
Look to yourselves—never stand on a trifle, men!
“Publicum bonum” will sanction the robbery.
Yield, aristocracy! rule joint-stock-ocracy!
Drive, ye share-holders, your ploughshares before ye!
Mount, and make ready, then, colliers and riflemen—
Rail-roads and waggon trains whisk ye to glory.
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