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Never, ah never, to return!<br />

Z—ds! What a Fall had our dear Brother?<br />

Morblêu! cries one, and Dam’me, t’other.<br />

The Nations give a general Screech,<br />

None cocks his Tail, none claws his Breech;<br />

Each trembles for the publick Weal,<br />

And, for a while, forgets to steal.<br />

A while all Eyes, intent and steddy,<br />

Pursue him, whirling down the Eddy.<br />

But out of Mind when out of View,<br />

Some other mounts the Twig anew;<br />

And Business, on each Monkey Shore,<br />

Runs the same Track it went before.<br />

To the Duchess of Queensborough 121<br />

Let the Knight on Beauty lower,<br />

Loveliest ornament of Power;<br />

Let him, at a stager’s nod,<br />

Painted, Prostitute, and Proud,<br />

Hate to Real Charms display,<br />

Basely sworn to ruin Gay …<br />

Happy Gay! ordain’d to know<br />

Such a Friend and such a Foe!<br />

What, though Wit and Sense to love<br />

Courtiers’ Idle Rage may move?<br />

Calmly you unhurt retreat,<br />

Banish’d from the meaner Great;<br />

Take your Beauties thence away:<br />

Full Revenge is to Obey.<br />

121 Samuel Wesley Jr., ms; cf. Poems (1862), 626–27.<br />

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