 | Poems on several occasions |  |
XII.—ANACREONTIC.
[No disappointment, friend, has power]
No disappointment, friend, has powerTo make me sigh or pine an hour.
Should some inferior rival get
The start by not deserving it,
A Whig's prosperity should move
No more my envy than my love.
Say, should this place for Master know
At once an alien and a foe;
I hope to view with mind serene
The ruin I have long foreseen.
Shall I for trifles grieve? shall I,
Who saw my father banish'd fly,
And Walpole live, and Anna die?
| Poems on several occasions | |