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I / Bob Southey! You're a poet - Poet-laureate, / And representative of all the race, / Although 't is true that you turn'd out a Tory at / Last, - yours has lately been a common case; / And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? / With all the Lakers, in and out of place? / A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye / Like "four and twenty Blackbirds in a pye;
II / "Which pye being open'd they began to sing" / (This old song and new simile holds good), / "A dainty dish to set before the King," / Or Regent, who admires such kind of food; - / And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing, / But like a hawk encumber'd with his hood, - / Explaining metaphysics to the nation - / I wish he would explain his Explanation.