To Lord Stanhope

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Title:     To Lord Stanhope
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

To Lord Stanhope on reading his Late Protest in the House of Lords
[Morning Chronicle, Jan. 31, 1795.]

STANHOPE! I hail, with ardent Hymn, thy name!
Thou shalt be bless'd and lov'd, when in the dust
Thy corse shall moulder--Patriot pure and just!
And o'er thy tomb the grateful hand of FAME

Shall grave:--'Here sleeps the Friend of Humankind!'
For thou, untainted by CORRUPTION'S bowl,
Or foul AMBITION, with undaunted soul
Hast spoke the language of a Free-born mind

Pleading the cause of Nature! Still pursue
Thy path of Honour!--To thy Country true,

Still watch th' expiring flame of Liberty!
O Patriot! still pursue thy virtuous way,
As holds his course the splendid Orb of Day,
Or thro' the stormy or the tranquil sky!

ONE OF THE PEOPLE.

1795.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: To Lord Stanhope

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