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EPIGRAMS ON CASTLEREAGH by GEORGE GORDON BYRON

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First Line: OH, CASTLEREAGH! THOU ART A PATRIOT NOW
Last Line: THE MAN WHO CUT HIS COUNTRY'S LONG AGO.
Subject(s): STEWART, ROBERT. 2D MARQUIS LONDONDERRY; CASTLEREAGH, VISCOUNT;
OH, Castlereagh! thou art a patriot now;
Cato died for his country, so didst thou:
He perish'd rather than see Rome enslaved,
Thou cutt'st thy throat that Britain may be saved!

So Castlereagh has cut his throat! -- The worst
Of this is, -- that his own was not the first.

So He has cut his throat at last! -- He! Who?
The man who cut his country's long ago.



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