Truce to thee, Turkey! Triumph to thy train,
Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine!
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"The Siege of Belgrade", ll. 1, 12, 16, 20. Unattributed in The Trifler (7 May 1817) and in The Literary Gazette (23 December 1820). Attributed to Alaric Watts by his son and reported in Notes and Queries (19 August 1905) p. 146. Sometimes headed by a Latin epigraph attributed to Virgil: ardentem aspicio atque arrectis auribus asto.