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Title: No Abolition of Slavery
Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem

Author: James Boswell

Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20360]

Language: English

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NO
ABOLITION
OF
SLAVERY;

OR THE
UNIVERSAL EMPIRE OF LOVE:

A
P O E M.

* * * * *

_Facit indignatio versus._ HORAT.

_Omnia vincit amor._ OVID.

* * * * *

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ERRATUM.

P. 13, l. 7, for mighty _read_ magick.

TO
THE RESPECTABLE BODY
OF
WEST-INDIA PLANTERS AND MERCHANTS,

THE FOLLOWING POEM
IS INSCRIBED BY

THE AUTHOUR.

NO ABOLITION OF SLAVERY: OR, THE UNIVERSAL EMPIRE OF LOVE.

ADDRESSED TO MISS ----.

----Most pleasing of thy sex,
Born to delight and never vex;
Whose kindness gently can controul
My wayward turbulence of soul.

Pry'thee, my dearest, dost thou read, 5
The Morning _Prints_, and ever heed
MINUTES, which tell how time's mispent,
In either House of Parliament?

See T----, with the front of Jove!
But not like Jove with thunder grac'd{1}, 10
In Westminster's superb alcove
Like the unhappy Theseus plac'd{2}.
Day after day indignant swells
His generous breast, while still he hears
_Impeachment's_ fierce relentless yells, 15
Which stir his bile and grate his ears.

And what a dull vain barren shew
ST. STEPHEN'S luckless Chapel fills;
Our notions of respect how low,
While fools bring in their idle Bills.