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IN OPPOSITION.
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We must abide what fortune has decreed,
And hope that Heaven will help us at our need.
Make your resolve! At home your means were great;
Abroad you will retain a poor estate;
Unostentatious, indigent, and scant,
Yet live secure, at least from present want."—(F.)
And hope that Heaven will help us at our need.
Make your resolve! At home your means were great;
Abroad you will retain a poor estate;
Unostentatious, indigent, and scant,
Yet live secure, at least from present want."—(F.)
Such, then, was the issue of all our poet's plotting and club-intrigues, his poetic exhortations, and his hopes of a saviour in Cyrnus. Not only did he fail of the aggrandisement of his party and the recovery of his estate: he had henceforth also to realise the miseries of exile.
