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“When from him roll'd the rights of nations,
Tropes, metaphors, hopes, adjurations;
The true-born Demosthenic thunders,
That do in Palace Yard such wonders!
And with resistless vengeance fall
Upon thy grocer Kings, Leaden Hall:
Still heads and tails alike of clans
Stuck closely to their coffee-cans.
At Monarchs when he gave his wipes,
The Capitani filled their pipes;
And, made of philosophic stuff,
Returned him gravely puff for puff!
Then asked the Embassador of Bentham
What sum in cash his Sovereign sent them?
For, though not very rapid scholars,
They have a genuine sense of dollars;
Then up the whisker'd council broke,
Ending, as it began, in smoke!”
Tropes, metaphors, hopes, adjurations;
The true-born Demosthenic thunders,
That do in Palace Yard such wonders!
And with resistless vengeance fall
Upon thy grocer Kings, Leaden Hall:
Still heads and tails alike of clans
Stuck closely to their coffee-cans.
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The Capitani filled their pipes;
And, made of philosophic stuff,
Returned him gravely puff for puff!
Then asked the Embassador of Bentham
What sum in cash his Sovereign sent them?
For, though not very rapid scholars,
They have a genuine sense of dollars;
Then up the whisker'd council broke,
Ending, as it began, in smoke!”
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