Poems By Anthony Pasquin [i.e. John Williams]. Second Edition |
AN EPIGRAMMATIC APOLOGY FOR SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS, Knight
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AN EPIGRAMMATIC APOLOGY FOR SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS, Knight of the Polar Star:
Occasioned by the national murmurings on the falling-in of the foundation at Somerset Place.
Will CHAMBERS screw'd from Britain's purse,Five hundred thousand pound,
To raise a pile, when part was rais'd,
It tumbled to the ground.
But let not Scorn annoy the Knight,
Or make his worth her prey;
He sure deserves a nation's thanks,
Who makes the base give way.
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