Lord Wellington And The Ministers

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Title:     Lord Wellington And The Ministers
Author: Thomas Moore [More Titles by Moore]

1813.

So gently in peace Alcibiades smiled,
While in battle he shone forth so terribly grand,
That the emblem they graved on his seal, was a child
With a thunderbolt placed in its innocent hand.

Oh Wellington, long as such Ministers wield
Your magnificent arm, the same emblem will do;
For while _they_'re in the Council and _you_ in the Field.
We've the _babies_ in _them_, and the _thunder_ in _you_!

[The end]
Thomas Moore's poem: Lord Wellington And The Ministers

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