LONG live our sovereign, George the three,
With honest men still compass’d be,
His subjects to protect;
And when our Prince shall rule the state,
May officers that on him wait,
Like Cassels gain respect.
Even foes abroad, and friends at home,
From all to whom his worth was known,
To speak his praise is due.
He still would plead the injur’d cause;
The villain shackle by the laws;
A terror not to few.
Those people where he did preside,
As judge, an arbiter of right,
May long his loss deplore,
Whose talents rare was much employed,
In usefulness to many round,
Let sound from shore to shore.
But when he found the time draw near,
To leave this world he did prepare,
His mind to tranquillize;
To quit this frail and mortal coil,
For a more rich and fertile soil.
Immortal in the skies.
(Margaretta Wedderburn)
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