"To each his suff'rings."
Heaps of dead Trojans were Scamander's bane,
Dead dogs, dead cats, and dung-boats shame the Seine,
Ten thousand shores and jakes the Thames defile,
And gradual mud is working woe to Nile;
Yet harder Duddon's fate, her hapless stream
Of fifty strains by Wordsworth is the theme.
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The following _jeu d'esprit_ was written on a certain nobleman, who,
leaving the Whig party, of which up to that time he had been a strong
adherent, and for the sake, it was supposed, of gaining the Regent's
favour, not only voted, but took a strong part against the Queen.