"Bide your time."--_Rebel Song_.
Bide your time--bide your time!
Patience is the true sublime.
Heroes, bottle up your tears;
Wait for ten, or ten score, years.
Shrink from blows, but rage in rhyme:
Bide your time--bide your time!
Bide your time--bide your time!
Snakes are safest in their slime.
Sages look before they leap;
Heroes, to your hovels creep.
Christmas loves pantomime:
Bide your time--bide your time!
Bide your time--bide your time!
"Shoulder arms"--but never prime.
Keep your skins from Saxon lead;
Plunder paupers for your bread.
Popish begging is no crime:
Bide your time--bide your time!
[Greek: Aion.]
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