The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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There are some skulls where false ideas intrude,
There are some statesmen whom their brains delude,
There is a rapture in the sudden scheme,—
Birkbéck and Brougham's philanthropic dream,—
“I love not man the less, but nature more,”
That keeps the clown ingenuous as before;
To mingle with his peers behind the plough,
And feel with wordless bliss the udder'd cow:
Roll on, thou deeply fine, law-glist'ning eye,
Ten thousand facts in vain thy wisdom try—
“When for a moment, like a drop of rain”
The thought sinks down upon thy caverned brain,
And Plaintiffs slink off with a bubbling groan,
Without a smile,—non-suited and o'erthrown!
“The wrecks are all thy deed” within the court,—
Then, Brougham, why to Parliament resort?
Why, 'gainst the land that raised thee to thy height,
Exhaust the democrat's opposing spite?
There are some statesmen whom their brains delude,
There is a rapture in the sudden scheme,—
Birkbéck and Brougham's philanthropic dream,—
“I love not man the less, but nature more,”
That keeps the clown ingenuous as before;
To mingle with his peers behind the plough,
And feel with wordless bliss the udder'd cow:
Roll on, thou deeply fine, law-glist'ning eye,
Ten thousand facts in vain thy wisdom try—
“When for a moment, like a drop of rain”
The thought sinks down upon thy caverned brain,
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Without a smile,—non-suited and o'erthrown!
“The wrecks are all thy deed” within the court,—
Then, Brougham, why to Parliament resort?
Why, 'gainst the land that raised thee to thy height,
Exhaust the democrat's opposing spite?
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