WHAT WILL THE LORDS DO ?
what will ihoy ? what dare they do ?•I know not, ba! s,:amise Whate'c'ithey do, their ;hare they'll do of something very wax ;
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AndsurelYthey have nous enou; h to save their noble bacon, By giving pretty freely now; where al; could soon be taken.
"Ah, well-a-day ! " the Tories say—The day is well, say" When sordid souls, pnt up for sale, find nobody to buy ; And the Senator who seeks for Fame or Fortune's meed to soar, Must trust to Truth and Freedom, for Corruption's reign is o'er.
The day is well, when England's King has heard his people's cries, And " reads his glorious history in a grateful nation's eyes ;" When the demon of Misrule is made beneath his glance to cower, Anti the path of Virtue points the way to the sunny heights of Power.
Oh, had that path been chosen erst by those who ruled the land, Would the gallant Poles have sunk for want of England's helpinghand? Would the tyrant, bearing in his train the curse and scourge of God, O'er Poland's plains, with corscs strown, triumphantly have trod?
From ,no unmanly source the scalding tear-drop sadly rolls Down many a rugged cheek for you, unconquerable Poles ! Alas ! that million hearts for your high cause should throb in vain, While the Vulture-banner mockingly floats o'er the unburied slain !
But a brighter dawn is coming, when the despot and the slave Shall fly the unclouded sun that shines to bless the free and brave; And the " petty men "41' of every land, a most congenial crew,. Crawling to nameless graves, will cry, "Oh, Lords, what shall we do ?"
' * See Lord LONDONDERRY'S apt and complimentary quotation applied to the "huge Colossus" on the Woolsack, who not only strides over him, but
" Sometimes treads with iron heel upon his lordly toe."
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