THE LOGICIANS REFUTED. IN IMITATION OF DEAN SWIFT. LOGICIANS have but ill defin'd By Ratiocinations specious, Have strove to prove with great precision, Homo est ratione preditum ; But for my soul I cannot credit 'em. And And that brute beasts are far before 'em, Deus est anima brutorum. Whoever knew an honest brute, At law his neighbour prosecute, They eat their meals, and take their sport, They never to the levee go To treat as dearest friend, a foe: Behold Behold him humbly cringing wait View him soon after to inferiors At court, the porters, lacquies, waiters, STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC. AMIDST the clamour of exulting joys, O WOLFE, to thee a streaming flood of woe, Sighing we pay, and think e'en conquest dear; Quebec in vain shall teach our breast to glow, Whilst thy sad fate extorts the heart-wrung tear. Alive the foe thy dreadful vigour fled, And saw thee fall with joy-pronouncing eyes: Yet they shall know thou conquerest, though dead! Since from thy tomb a thousand heroes rise. |