May this dreary abode be for ever unknown,
For ever, by virtue, by Pity, untrod;
Unbreathed be his name, and unhonor'd his stone;
The foe of his country, his monarch, his God.
More verses by George Canning
- The New-Old Opposition
- Though Short Thy Span, God's Unimpeach'D Decrees
- Epigram
- Moderate Men And Moderate Measures
- The Slavery Of Greece