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274 ’Twas natural that I should take a
 * Particular interest in it, Sir,

For I’ve been agent at Jamaica,
 * And he a foreign minister.

You say you’ve marked my course of late,
 * And mean to make what I’ve been doing

A means of breaking up the State,
 * And bringing on our party’s ruin.

With all who’ve known your scoundrel tricks,
 * Since first you came to curse the nation,

The Lucifer of politics,
 * “You disappoint no expectation.”

It suits your mean and grovelling spirit
 * Thus to attack great men like me;

You slander only chiefs of merit,
 * Stars in our country’s galaxy!

Elijah, when his task was done,
 * His mantle o’er Elisha threw;

Now I’m my father’s eldest son,
 * And heir to all his talents too.

We’re proud to say, the world well knows
 * You never liked our family;