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ON THE SNAKE DEPICTED AT THE HEAD OF SOME NEWSPAPERS by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "YE SONS OF SEDITION, HOW COMES IT TO PASS"
Last Line: FOR THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT WE KNOW SHOULD BE BRUIS'D
Subject(s): AMERICAN REVOLUTION;

YE sons of Sedition, how comes it to pass
That America's typ'd by a Snake -- in the grass?
Don't you think 't is 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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