Lines Addressed By Lord Byron To Mr. Hobhouse On His Election For Westminster

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Title:     Lines Addressed By Lord Byron To Mr. Hobhouse On His Election For Westminster
Author: Lord Byron [More Titles by Byron]

TO MR. HOBHOUSE ON HIS ELECTION FOR WESTMINSTER.[1]

WOULD you go to the house by the true gate,
Much faster than ever Whig Charley went;
Let Parliament send you to Newgate,
And Newgate will send you to Parliament.

April 9, 1820.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] ["I send you 'a Song of Triumph,' by W. Botherby, Esq^re^ price
sixpence, on the election of J.C.H., Esqre., for Westminster (_not_ for
publication)."--Letter to Murray, April 9, 1820, _Letters_, 1901, v. 6.]

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Lord Byron's poem: Lines Addressed By Lord Byron To Mr. Hobhouse On His Election For Westminster

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