Note 17 — Chapter III · —THIRD PERIOD: IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT.—1798-1836.
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The following fragment preserves something of the feeling of the time:—
"Fill the wine-cup fast, for the storm is past, The tyrant Tippu is slain at last, And victory smiles To reward the toils Of Britons once again. "Let the trumpet sound, and the sound go round Along the bound of Eastern ground; Let the cymbals clang With a merry-merry bang, To the joys of the next campaign."