Versos English Anonymous Statesmen

English poem

Statesmen

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87. Statesmen are always sick of one disease, And a good pension gives them present ease. Good patriots at court abuses rail, And all the nation's grievances bewail: But when the sovereign balsam's once apply'd The zealot never fails to change his side; And when he must the golden key resign, The railing spirit comes about again.