The Seven Sages
The avenging leaf those fields raised up against it.
The Fifth. Burke was a Whig.
The Sixth. From four great minds that hated Whiggery.
Mimicking what they heard, as children mimic;
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That never looked out of the eye of a saint
Harried, and Burkes great melody against it.
The Third. My great-grandfathers father talked of music,
A levelling, rancorous, rational sort of mind
The Third. A voice
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The Sixth. Whether they knew or not,
The Fifth. Whence came our thought?
But never saw the trefoil stained with blood,
Or out of drunkards eye.
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Goldsmith and Burke, Swift and the Bishop of Cloyne
Roads full of beggars, cattle in the fields,
Soft as the rustle of a reed from Cloyne
In Grattans house.
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The Second. My great-grandfather shared
The Seventh. Alls Whiggery now,
The First. My great-grandfather spoke to Edmund Burke
They understood that wisdom comes of beggary.
A pot-house bench with Oliver Goldsmith once.
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The Second. Oliver Goldsmith sang what he had seen,
The Sixtb. What schooling had these four?
Drank tar-water with the Bishop of Cloyne.
The Fourth. But mine saw Stella once.
That gathers volume; now a thunder-clap.