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Holland that scarce deserves the name of land	A
As but the off scouring of the British sand	A
And so much earth as was contributed	B
By English pilots when they heaved the lead	C
Or what by th' ocean's slow alluvion fell	D
Of shipwrecked cockle and the mussel shell	D
This indigested vomit of the sea	E
Fell to the Dutch by just propriety	E
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Glad then as miners that have found the ore	F
They with mad labour fished the land to shore	F
And dived as desperately for each piece	G
Of earth as if't had been of ambergris	H
Collecting anxiously small loads of clay	I
Less than what building swallows bear away	I
Or than those pills which sordid beetles roll	J
Transfusing into them their dunghill soul	J
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How did they rivet with gigantic piles	K
Thorough the centre of their new catch egrave d miles	K
And to the stake a struggling country bound	L
Where barking waves still bait the forc egrave d ground	L
Building their watery Babel far more high	M
To reach the sea than those to scale the sky	M
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Yet still his claim the injured ocean laid	N
And oft at leap frog o'er their steeples played	N
As if on purpose it on land had come	O
To show them what's their Mare Liberum	O
A daily deluge over them does boil	P
The earth and water play at level coil	P
The fish ofttimes the burger dispossessed	Q
And sat not as a meat but as a guest	Q
And oft the tritons and the sea nymphs saw	R
Whole shoals of Dutch served up for cabillau	P
Or as they over the new level ranged	S
For pickled herring pickled Heeren changed	S
Nature it seemed ashamed of her mistake	T
Would throw their land away at duck and drake	T
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Therefore necessity that first made kings	U
Something like government among them brings	U
For as with pygmies who best kills the crane	V
Among the hungry he that treasures grain	V
Among the blind the one eyed blinkard reigns	W
So rules among the drown egrave d he that drains	W
Not who first sees the rising sun commands	X
But who could first discern the rising lands	X
Who best could know to pump an earth so leak	Y
Him they their Lord and country's Father speak	Y
To make a bank was a great plot of state	Z
Invent a shovel and be magistrate	Z
Hence some small dyke grave unperceived invades	A2
The power and grows as 'twere a King of Spades	A2
But for less envy some joint states endures	B2
Who look like a Commission of the Sewers	C2
For these Half anders half wet half dry	M
Nor bear strict service nor pure liberty	E
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'Tis probable religion after this	H
Came next in order which they could not miss	H
How could the Dutch but be converted when	D2
The Apostles were so many fishermen	E2
Besides the waters of themselves did rise	F2
And as their land so them did re baptize	F2
Though herring for their god few voices missed	G2
And Poor John to have been the Evangelist	G2
Faith that could never twins conveive before	F
Never so fertile spawned upon this shore	F
More pregnant than their Margaret that laid down	H2
For Hans in Kelder of a whole Hans town	H2
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Sure when religion did itself embark	I2
And from the East would Westward steer its ark	I2
It struck and splitting on this unknown ground	L
Each one thence pillaged the first piece he found	L
Hence Amsterdam Turk Christian Pagan Jew	J2
Staple of sects and mint of schism grew	J2
That bank of conscience where not one so strange	K2
Opinion but finds credit and exchange	K2
In vain for Catholics ourselves we bear	L2
The Universal Church is only there	L2
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Nor can civility there want for tillage	K2
Where wisely for their court they chose a village	K2
How fit a title clothes their governors	C2
Themselves the Hogs as all their subject Bores	M2
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Let it suffice to give their country fame	O
That it had one Civilis called by name	O
Some fifteen hundred and more years ago	N2
But surely never any that was so	N2
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See but their mermaids with their tails of fish	O2
Reeking at church over the chafing dish	O2
A vestal turf enshrined in earthen ware	L2
Fumes through the loopholes of a wooden square	L2
Each to the temple with these altars tend	P2
But still does place it at her western end	P2
While the fat stream of female sacrifice	Q2
Fills the priest's nostrils and puts out his eyes	F2
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Or what a spectacle the skipper gross	R2
A water Hercules butter coloss	R2
Tunned up with all their several towns of Beer	S2
When staggering upon some land snick and sneer	S2
They try like statuaries if they can	T2
Cut out each other's Athos to a man	T2
And carve in their large bodies where they please	R2
The arms of the United Provinces	R2
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But when such amity at home is showed	U2
What then are their confederacies abroad	V2
Let this one court'sy witness all the rest	Q
When their whole navy they together pressed	Q
Not Christian captives to redeem from bands	R2
Or intercept the Western golden sands	R2
No but all ancient rights and leagues must vail	P
Rather than to the English strike their sail	P
To whom their weather beaten province owes	R2
Itself when as some greater vessel tows	R2
A cockboat tossed with the same wind and fate	Z
We buoyed so often up their sinking state	Z
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Was this Jus Belli et Pacis Could this be	E
Cause why their burgomaster of the sea	E
Rammed with gun powder flaming with brand wine	W2
Should raging hold his linstock to the mine	W2
While with feigned treaties they invade by stealth	X2
Our sore new circumcis egrave d Commonwealth	X2
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Yet of his vain attempt no more he sees	R2
Than of case butter shot and bullet cheese	R2
And the torn navy staggered with him home	O
While the sea laughed itself into a foam	O
'Tis true since that as fortune kindly sports	R2
A wholesome danger drove us to our ports	R2
While half their banished keels the tempest tossed	Y2
Half bound at home in prison to the frost	Y2
That ours meantime at leisure might careen	Z2
In a calm winter under skies serene	Z2
As the obsequious air and waters rest	Q
Till the dear halcyon hatch out all its nest	Q
The Commonwealth doth by its losses grow	N2
And like its own seas only ebbs to flow	N2
Besides that very agitation laves	R2
And purges out the corruptible waves	R2
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And now again our arm egrave d Bucentore	N2
Doth yearly their sea nuptials restore	N2
And now their hydra of seven provinces	R2
Is strangled by our infant Hercules	R2
Their tortoise wants its vainly stretch egrave d neck	A3
Their navy all our conquest or our wreck	A3
Or what is left their Carthage overcome	O
Would render fain unto our better Rome	O
Unless our Senate lest their youth disuse	R2
The war but who would peace if begged refuse	R2
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For now of nothing may our state despair	N2
Darling of heaven and of men the care	N2
Provided that they be what they have been	E2
Watchful abroad and honest still within	E2
For while our Neptune doth a trident shake	T
Steeled with those piercing heads Deane Monck and Blake	T
And while Jove governs in the highest sphere	N2
Vainly in Hell let Pluto domineer	N2

Andrew Marvell

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