The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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Come, heavenly times! when carters' heavy pates
Replete with figures, like scholastic slates,
Shall throb o'er Barrow, and reflect with Locke,
And science flourish down to whip and frock!—
Come, lovely days, when teeming pedants reign,
Homers in shops, and Virgils on the plain!
When feeling butchers like their oxen moan,
And turncocks seek the philosophic stone:—
Lo! the bright visions raise a rebel's smile,
And whiggy Brougham grins serene the while!
Replete with figures, like scholastic slates,
Shall throb o'er Barrow, and reflect with Locke,
And science flourish down to whip and frock!—
Come, lovely days, when teeming pedants reign,
Homers in shops, and Virgils on the plain!
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And turncocks seek the philosophic stone:—
Lo! the bright visions raise a rebel's smile,
And whiggy Brougham grins serene the while!
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