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scripsit quidem fata sed sequitur	A
SENECA	B
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Of old the Sultan Genius reigned	C
As Nature meant supreme alone	D
With mind unchekt and hands unchained	C
His views his conquests were his own	D
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But power like his that digs its grave	E
With its own sceptre could not last	C
So Genius' self became the slave	E
Of laws that Genius' self had past	C
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As Jove who forged the chain of Fate	C
Was ever after doomed to wear it	C
His nods his struggles all too late	C
Qui semel jussit semper paret	C
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To check young Genius' proud career	F
The slaves who now his throne invaded	C
Made Criticism his prime Vizir	F
And from that hour his glories faded	C
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Tied down in Legislation's school	G
Afraid of even his own ambition	H
His very victories were by rule	G
And he was great but by permission	H
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His most heroic deeds the same	I
That dazzled when spontaneous actions	J
Now done by law seemed cold and tame	I
And shorn of all their first attractions	J
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If he but stirred to take the air	F
Instant the Vizir's Council sat	C
Good Lord your Highness can't go there	F
Bless me your Highness can't do that	C
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If loving pomp he chose to buy	K
Rich jewels for his diadem	L
The taste was bad the price was high	K
A flower were simpler than a gem	L
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To please them if he took to flowers	M
What trifling what unmeaning things	N
Fit for a woman's toilet hours	M
But not at all the style for Kings	N
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If fond of his domestic sphere	F
He played no more the rambling comet	C
A dull good sort of man 'twas clear	F
But as for great or brave far from it	C
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Did he then look o'er distant oceans	J
For realms more worthy to enthrone him	O
Saint Aristotle what wild notions	J
Serve a 'ne exeat regno' on him	O
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At length their last and worst to do	C
They round him placed a guard of watchmen	P
Reviewers knaves in brown or blue	C
Turned up with yellow chiefly Scotchmen	P
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To dog his footsteps all about	C
Like those in Longwood's prison grounds	Q
Who at Napoleon's heels rode out	C
For fear the Conqueror should break bounds	Q
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Oh for some Champion of his power	F
Some Ultra spirit to set free	F
As erst in Shakespeare's sovereign hour	F
The thunders of his Royalty	F
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To vindicate his ancient line	P
The first the true the only one	P
Of Right eternal and divine	P
That rules beneath the blessed sun	P

Thomas Moore

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