Oh, Castlereagh! thou art a patriot now; <br />Cato died for his country, so didst thou: <br />He perish'd rather than see Rome enslaved, <br />Thou cutt' st thy throat that Britain may be saved! <br />So Castlereagh has cut his throat!--The worst <br />Of this is, - that his own was not the first. <br />So He has cut his throat at last!--He! Who? <br />The man who cut his country's long ago.<br /><br />George Gordon Byron<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/epigrams/
