History & Politics
On the Snake Depicted at the Head of Some American Newspapers
From Poems of American History (1908)
Ye sons of Sedition, how comes it to pass
That America's typ'd by a Snake--in the grass?
Don't you think 'tis a scandalous, saucy reflection,
That merits the soundest, severest correction?
New-England's the Head, too;--New-England's abus'd,
For the Head of the Serpent we know should be bruis'd.
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Anonymous (American Ballads and Songs). “On the Snake Depicted at the Head of Some American Newspapers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-american-ballads/22/.
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Anonymous (American Ballads and Songs). “On the Snake Depicted at the Head of Some American Newspapers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-american-ballads/22/.
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