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Epigrams

by George Gordon, Lord Byron

Romantic · Short · 8 lines

OH, Castlereagh! thou art a patriot now; Cato died for his country, so did'st thou: He perished rather than see Rome enslaved, Thou cut'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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Public domain. Source: PoetryDB. Reproduced verbatim; see theanthology for the full collection.

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