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The Poems of John Byrom

Edited by Adolphus William Ward

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XVIII. BIRDS OF A FEATHER.

Answer Thereunto.

Dear me! has Wit and Verse, at last, no more
'Gainst Rump and Commonwealth to say in Store?
'Gainst Whig Opponents—” 'Tis all one, you see,
To say a Word 'gainst any of the Three,—
Rump, Commonwealth or Whig.—Birds of a Feather,
Proverb and Poet show, will flock together.