"For your Tories his fine Irish brain he would spin, Who received prose and rhyme with a promising grin, "Go ahead, you queer fish, and more power to your fin!" But to save from starvation stirred never a pin... But at last he was beat, and sought help of the bin, (All the same to the Doctor, from claret to gin), Which led swiftly to gaol, with consumption therein; It was much, when the bones rattled loose in his skin. He got leave to die here, out of Babylon’s din. Barring drinks and the girls, I ne’er heard of a sin, Many worse, better few, than bright broken Maginn."
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William Maginn
William Maginn (10 July 1794 – 21 August 1842) was an Irish journalist and writer.
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