To The Right Honourable The Earl Of Thomond, At Bath

Mary Barber 1685 – 1755



Obrian, were in Story told,
Thy Ancestors wore Crowns of old:
In fair Hibernia's Isle they reign'd;
A Country, by their Sons disdain'd!
Too apt to charge their Native Isle
With ev'ry Vice of Speech and Style:
Yet thy Eliza, great and good,
Of Seymour's, and of Piercy's Blood,
(Whose Ancestors, to Fame well known,
When injur'd, shook the British Throne
Will not thy native Isle deride,
Tho' to an higher Crown ally'd.
And shall Hibernia fear Disgrace,
From Thomond, of Milesian Race?
It ill becomes thee thus to treat
Thy Family's Imperial Seat.

Great Boiroimke! look down and see
This Change in thy Posterity;
Who quit all Titles to thy Throne,
But Hospitality alone.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABBCCXXDDXAEEFF GGDD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 658
Words 117
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 16, 4

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