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JEUX D'ESPRIT AND MINOR POEMS, 1798-1824
ON LORD THURLOW'S POEMS.31
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When Thurlow this damned nonsense sent,
(I hope I am not violent)
Nor men nor gods knew what he meant.
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And since not even our Rogers' praise
To common sense his thoughts could raise —
Why would they let him print his lays?
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To me, divine Apollo, grant – O!
Hermilda's32 first and second canto,
I'm fitting up a new portmanteau;
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And thus to furnish decent lining,
My own and others' bays I'm twining, —
So, gentle Thurlow, throw me thine in.
June 2, 1813.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 396.]
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[Hermilda in Palestine was published in 1812, in quarto, and twice reissued in 1813, as part of Poems on Various Occasions (8vo). The Lines upon Rogers' Epistle to a Friend appeared first in the Gentleman's Magazine for April, 1813, vol. 83, p. 357, and were reprinted in the second edition of Poems, etc., 1813, pp. 162, 163. The lines in italics, which precede each stanza, are taken from the last stanza of Lord Thurlow's poem.]
