The Illiberal! Verse and Prose from the North!! ... Dedicated to my Lord Byron in the South!! N.B. To be continued occasionally!! viz. as a supplement to each number of The Liberal [by William Gifford] |
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INVOCATION.
O! eruditest Lanterns of the South,Who wield the goose-quill gliding o'er demy;
And O! ye little lights and nursing dames,
Who by permission of a noble Lord,
Have chang'd the Coral for the Poet's Pen,
And mingled triple-puny Epigrams,
With his new-invented Liberal-ities;
And particularly thou, O! Byron,
Whose seat amongst the Poets once was fixed,
I seek protection for my Supplement.
IMITATION.
Vos, o clarissima mundi,
Lumina, labentem cœlo quæ ducitis annum:
Liber et alma Ceres, vestro si munere tellus
Chaoniam pingui glandem mutavit arista,
Poculaquè inventis Acheloia miscult uvis:
Tuque adeo, quem mox quæ sint habitura, deorum
Concilia incertum est, ------ Cæsar.
Lumina, labentem cœlo quæ ducitis annum:
Liber et alma Ceres, vestro si munere tellus
Chaoniam pingui glandem mutavit arista,
Poculaquè inventis Acheloia miscult uvis:
Tuque adeo, quem mox quæ sint habitura, deorum
Concilia incertum est, ------ Cæsar.
Virg. Georg. I.
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