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AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS.
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Domdaniei’s dread destroyer, who o’erthrew
More mad magicians than the world e’er knew.
Immortal Hero ! all thy foes o’ercome,
For ever reign—the rival of Tom Thumb ! 100
Since startled metre fled before thy face,
"Well wert thpu doom’d the last of all thy race !
Well might triumphant Genii bear thee hence,
Illustrious conqueror of common sense !
Now, last and greatest, Madoc spreads his sails.
Cacique in Mexico, and Prince in Wales ;
Tells us strange tales, as other travellers do,
More old than Mandeville’s, and not so true.
Oh! Southey, Southey !* cease thy varied song S
A Bard may chaunt too often and too long: 110
defiance of precedent and poetry. Mr. S. wished to produce
something novel, and succeeded to a miracle. Joan of Arc
was marvellous enough, but Thalaba was one of those
poems “ which in the words of Porson, will be read when
Homer and Virgil are forgotten, but—net till then"
* Wc beg Mr. Squthey'j pardon; “ Madoc disdains the