January, 1795
Mary Robinson
1757 to 1800
Track 1
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Some in luxury delighting;
Candor spurn'd, and art rewarded.
Lordlings empty and insipid.
Courtiers cringing and voracious;
Hospitals, and groans of anguish.
Authors who can't earn a dinner;
Lords in ermine, beggars freezing;
Gallant soldiers fighting, bleeding.
Pamphlets, newspapers, and odes,
Taking place of vet'ran merit.
Gallant souls with empty purses;
Lovers old, and beaux decrepid;
Merit silently deploring.
Fugitives for shelter seeking;
School-boys, smit with martial spirit,
Honest men who can't get places,
Taste and talents quite deserted;
Seeking fame by diff'rent roads.
Balls, where simp'ring misses languish;
Arrogance o'er merit soaring;
Placemen mocking subjects loyal;
All the laws of truth perverted;
Many a subtle rogue a winner;
Ruin hasten'd, peace retarded;
Theatres, and meeting-houses;
Separations, weddings royal.
Ladies gambling night and morning;
More in talking than in fighting;
Titled gluttons dainties carving,
Misers scarce the wretched heeding;
Lawyers, doctors, politicians:
Fools the works of genius scorning;
Youthful damsels quite forsaken.
Gen'rals only fit for nurses;
Misers hoarding, tradesmen breaking.
Arts and sciences bewailing;
Genius in a garret starving.
Pavement slipp'ry, people sneezing,
Knaves who shew unblushing faces;
Lofty mansions, warm and spacious;
Wives who laugh at passive spouses;
Poets, painters, and musicians;
Ancient dames for girls mistaken,
Commerce drooping, credit failing;
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