English poem
Verses occasioned by the burning of mr. Wilberforce's effigy at Bristol
by Anonymous
"When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station:" When Traffic's sordid sons their hate display, 'Tis, Wilberforce, thy glorious exaltation.
When on the pile the mimic body's laid, And vengeful torches light the unhallow'd fire, A sacrifice is to thy virtue made; The flames, tho' sprang from hell, to heav'n aspire.
The mimic body soon returns to dust, Borne on the air, or scatter'd on the plain; Virtue herself shall form thy marble bust, Thy golden statue ages to remain.
But guard the statue and the bust with care; Erect them not on Afric's grateful shore! Left all her nations to the spot repair, And in thy symbols, thee their god adore.
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