On The Death of Mr Snider Murder'd By Richardson

In heavens eternal court it was decreed

How the first martyr for the cause should bleed

To clear the country of the hated brood

He whet his courage for the common good

Long hid before, a vile infernal here

Prevents Achilles in his mid career

Where'er this fury darts his Pois'nous breath

All are endanger'd to the shafts of death

The generous Sires beheld the fatal wound

Saw their young champion gasping on the ground

They rais'd him up. but to each present ear

What martial glories did his tongue declare

The wretch appal'd no longer can despise

But from the Striking victim turns his eyes —

When this young martial genius did appear

The Tory cheifs no longer could forbear.

Ripe for destruction, see the wretches doom

He waits the curses of the age to come

In vain he flies, by Justice Swiftly chaced

With unexpected infamy disgraced

Be Richardson for ever banish'd here

The grand Usurpers bravely vaunted Heir.

We bring the body from the watry bower

To lodge it where it shall remove no more.

Snider behold with what Majestic Love

The Illustrious retinue begins to move

With Secret rage fair freedoms foes beneath

See in thy corse ev'n Majesty in Death.