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While others sing the fortune of the great	A
Empire and arms and all the pomp of state	A
With Britain's hero	B
set their souls on fire	C
And grow immortal as his deeds inspire	D
I draw a deeper scene a scene that yields	E
A louder trumpet and more dreadful fields	E
The world alarm'd both earth and heaven o'erthrown	F
And gasping Nature's last tremendous groan	F
Death's ancient sceptre broke the teeming tomb	G
The righteous Judge and man's eternal doom	G
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'Twixt joy and pain I view the bold design	F
And ask my anxious heart if it be mine	F
Whatever great or dreadful has been done	F
Within the sight of conscious stars or sun	F
Is far beneath my daring I look down	F
On all the splendours of the British crown	F
This globe is for my verse a narrow bound	H
Attend me all ye glorious worlds around	H
O all ye angels howsoe'er disjoin'd	H
Of every various order place and kind	H
Hear and assist a feeble mortal's lays	I
'Tis your eternal King I strive to praise	I
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But chiefly Thou great Ruler Lord of all	J
Before whose throne archangels prostrate fall	J
If at Thy nod from discord and from night	H
Sprang beauty and yon sparkling worlds of light	H
Exalt e'en me all inward tumults quell	K
The clouds and darkness of my mind dispel	K
To my great subject Thou my breast inspire	D
And raise my labouring soul with equal fire	C
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Man bear thy brow aloft view every grace	L
In God's great offspring beauteous Nature's face	L
See Spring's gay bloom see golden Autumn's store	M
See how Earth smiles and hear old Ocean roar	M
Leviathans but heave their cumbrous mail	N
It makes a tide and wind bound navies sail	N
Here forests rise the mountain's awful pride	H
Here rivers measure climes and worlds divide	H
There valleys fraught with gold's resplendent seeds	O
Hold kings and kingdoms' fortunes in their beds	P
There to the skies aspiring hills ascend	H
And into distant lands their shades extend	H
View cities armies fleets of fleets the pride	H
See Europe's law in Albion's Channel ride	H
View the whole earth's vast landscape unconfined	H
Or view in Britain all her glories join'd	H
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Then let the firmament thy wonder raise	I
'T will raise thy wonder but transcend thy praise	I
How far from east to west The labouring eye	Q
Can scarce the distant azure bounds descry	M
Wide theatre where tempests play at large	R
And God's right hand can all its wrath discharge	R
Mark how those radiant lamps inflame the pole	S
Call forth the seasons and the year control	S
They shine through time with an unalter'd ray	M
See this grand period rise and that decay	M
So vast this world's a grain yet myriads grace	L
With golden pomp the throng'd ethereal space	L
So bright with such a wealth of glory stored	H
'T were sin in Heathens not to have adored	H
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How great how firm how sacred all appears	T
How worthy an immortal round of years	T
Yet all must drop as autumn's sickliest grain	F
And earth and firmament be sought in vain	F
The tract forgot where constellations shone	F
Or where the Stuarts fill'd an awful throne	F
Time shall be slain all Nature be destroy'd	H
Nor leave an atom in the mighty void	H
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Sooner or later in some future date	H
A dreadful secret in the book of fate	H
This hour for aught all human wisdom knows	U
Or when ten thousand harvests more have rose	U
When scenes are changed on this revolving earth	V
Old empires fall and give new empires birth	V
While other Bourbons rule in other lands	W
And if man's sin forbids not other Annes	W
While the still busy world is treading o'er	M
The paths they trod five thousand years before	M
Thoughtless as those who now life's mazes run	F
Of earth dissolved or an extinguish'd sun	F
Ye sublunary worlds awake awake	X
Ye rulers of the nations hear and shake	X
Thick clouds of darkness shall arise on day	M
In sudden night all earth's dominions lay	M
Impetuous winds the scatter'd forests rend	M
Eternal mountains like their cedars bend	M
The valleys yawn the troubled ocean roar	M
And break the bondage of his wonted shore	M
A sanguine stain the silver moon o'erspread	M
Darkness the circle of the sun invade	M
From inmost heaven incessant thunders roll	S
And the strong echo bound from pole to pole	S
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When lo a mighty trump one half conceal'd	M
In clouds one half to mortal eye reveal'd	M
Shall pour a dreadful note the piercing call	J
Shall rattle in the centre of the ball	J
The' extended circuit of creation shake	X
The living die with fear the dead awake	X
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O powerful blast to which no equal sound	M
Did e'er the frighted ear of Nature wound	M
Though rival clarions have been strain'd on high	Q
And kindled wars immortal through the sky	Q
Though God's whole enginery discharged and all	J
The rebel angels bellow'd in their fall	J
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Have angels sinn'd And shall not man beware	M
How shall a son of earth decline the snare	M
Not folded arms and slackness of the mind	M
Can promise for the safety of mankind	M
None are supinely good through care and pain	F
And various arts the steep ascent we gain	F
This is the scene of combat not of rest	M
Man's is laborious happiness at best	M
On this side death his dangers never cease	W
His joys are joys of conquest not of peace	W
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If then obsequious to the will of fate	M
And bending to the terms of human state	M
When guilty joys invite us to their arms	W
When beauty smiles or grandeur spreads her charms	W
The conscious soul would this great scene display	M
Call down the' immortal hosts in dread array	M
The trumpet sound the Christian banner spread	M
And raise from silent graves the trembling dead	M
Such deep impression would the picture make	X
No power on earth her firm resolve could shake	X
Engaged with angels she would greatly stand	M
And look regardless down on sea and land	M
Not proffer'd worlds her ardour could restrain	F
And Death might shake his threatening lance in vain	F
Her certain conquest would endear the fight	M
And danger serve but to exalt delight	M
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Instructed thus to shun the fatal spring	Y
Whence flow the terrors of that day I sing	Y
More boldly we our labours may pursue	W
And all the dreadful image set to view	W
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The sparkling eye the sleek and painted breast	M
The burnish'd scale curl'd train and rising crest	M
All that is lovely in the noxious snake	X
Provokes our fear and bids us flee the brake	X
The sting once drawn his guiltless beauties rise	W
In pleasing lustre and detain our eyes	W
We view with joy what once did horror move	Z
And strong aversion softens into love	A2
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Say then my Muse whom dismal scenes delight	M
Frequent at tombs and in the realms of Night	M
Say melancholy maid if bold to dare	M
The last extremes of terror and despair	M
O say what change on earth what heart in man	F
This blackest moment since the world began	F
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Ah mournful turn The blissful Earth who late	M
At leisure on her axle roll'd in state	M
While thousand golden planets knew no rest	M
Still onward in their circling journey press'd	M
A grateful change of seasons some to bring	Y
And sweet vicissitude of fall and spring	Y
Some through vast oceans to conduct the keel	B2
And some those watery worlds to sink or swell	K
Around her some their splendours to display	M
And gild her globe with tributary day	M
This world so great of joy the bright abode	M
Heaven's darling child and favourite of her God	M
Now looks an exile from her Father's care	M
Deliver'd o'er to darkness and despair	M
No sun in radiant glory shines on high	Q
No light but from the terrors of the sky	Q
Fallen are her mountains her famed rivers lost	M
And all into a second chaos toss'd	M
One universal ruin spreads abroad	M
Nothing is safe beneath the throne of God	M
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Such Earth thy fate what then canst thou afford	M
To comfort and support thy guilty lord	M
Man haughty lord of all beneath the moon	F
How must he bend his soul's ambition down	F
Prostrate the reptile own and disavow	C2
His boasted stature and assuming brow	C2
Claim kindred with the clay and curse his form	D2
That speaks distinction fr	C2

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