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CONCLUSION.
Now to be serious—O ye men!
(Few eagles, and too many a wren)—
How dare ye fill the room with such pollution?—
Will Justice say, while thus ye hang
So sad and villanous a gang,
Yourselves should not be led to execution?
(Few eagles, and too many a wren)—
How dare ye fill the room with such pollution?—
Will Justice say, while thus ye hang
So sad and villanous a gang,
Yourselves should not be led to execution?
How cruel to keep Genius out,
To favour fools, and rabble rout;—
Where is the just and independent spirit?—
Ah! dinners and a glass of port
Can favour trash of ev'ry sort,
And thus exclude the works of real merit.
To favour fools, and rabble rout;—
Where is the just and independent spirit?—
Ah! dinners and a glass of port
Can favour trash of ev'ry sort,
And thus exclude the works of real merit.
Great George, in all thy wrath arise—
Turn to thy royal dome thine eyes—
And smartly kick each academic tether:—
But should this deed disgrace thy glory,
As sounding not sublime in story,
Bid Sam the porter knock their heads together!
Turn to thy royal dome thine eyes—
And smartly kick each academic tether:—
But should this deed disgrace thy glory,
As sounding not sublime in story,
Bid Sam the porter knock their heads together!
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