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Now man awakes and from his silent bed	A
Where he has slept for ages lifts his head	A
Shakes off the slumber of ten thousand years	B
And on the borders of new worlds appears	B
Whate'er the bold the rash adventure cost	C
In wide Eternity I dare be lost	D
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The Muse is wont in narrow bounds to sing	E
To teach the swain or celebrate the king	E
I grasp the whole no more to parts confined	F
I lift my voice and sing to human kind	F
I sing to men and angels angels join	G
While such the theme their sacred songs with mine	H
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Again the trumpet's intermitted sound	I
Rolls the wide circuit of creation round	I
An universal concourse to prepare	J
Of all that ever breathed the vital air	J
In some wide field which active whirlwinds sweep	K
Drive cities forests mountains to the deep	K
To smooth and lengthen out the' unbounded space	L
And spread an area for all human race	L
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Now monuments prove faithful to their trust	M
And render back their long committed dust	M
Now charnels rattle scatter'd limbs and all	N
The various bones obsequious to the call	N
Self moved advance the neck perhaps to meet	O
The distant head the distant legs the feet	O
Dreadful to view see through the dusky sky	P
Fragments of bodies in confusion fly	P
To distant regions journeying there to claim	Q
Deserted members and complete the frame	Q
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When the world bow'd to Rome's almighty sword	R
Rome bow'd to Pompey and confess'd her lord	R
Yet one day lost this deity below	S
Became the scorn and pity of his foe	S
His blood a traitor's sacrifice was made	T
And smoked indignant on a ruffian's blade	T
No trumpet's sound no gasping army's yell	U
Bid with due horror his great soul farewell	U
Obscure his fall all weltering in his gore	V
His trunk was cast to perish on the shore	V
While Julius frown'd the bloody monster dead	A
Who brought the world in his great rival's head	A
This sever'd head and trunk shall join once more	V
Though realms now rise between and oceans roar	V
The trumpet's sound each vagrant mote shall hear	W
Or fix'd in earth or if afloat in air	J
Obey the signal wafted in the wind	F
And not one sleeping atom lag behind	F
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So swarming bees that on a summer's day	X
In airy rings and wild meanders play	X
Charm'd with the brasen sound their wanderings end	Y
And gently circling on a bough descend	Y
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The body thus renew'd the conscious soul	Z
Which has perhaps been fluttering near the pole	Z
Or midst the burning planets wondering stray'd	T
Or hover'd o'er where her pale corpse was laid	T
Or rather coasted on her final state	A2
And fear'd or wish'd for her appointed fate	A2
This soul returning with a constant flame	Q
Now weds for ever her immortal frame	Q
Life which ran down before so high is wound	I
The springs maintain an everlasting round	I
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Thus a frail model of the work design'd	F
First takes a copy of the builder's mind	F
Before the structure firm with lasting oak	B2
And marble bowels of the solid rock	C2
Turns the strong arch and bids the columns rise	D2
And bear the lofty palace to the skies	D2
The wrongs of Time enabled to surpass	E2
With bars of adamant and ribs of brass	E2
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That ancient sacred and illustrious dome	F2
Where soon or late fair Albion's heroes come	G2
From camps and courts though great or wise or just	M
To feed the worm and moulder into dust	M
That solemn mansion of the royal dead	A
Where passing slaves o'er sleeping monarchs tread	A
Now populous o'erflows a numerous race	L
Of rising kings fill all the' extended space	L
A life well spent not the victorious sword	R
Awards the crown and styles the greater lord	R
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Nor monuments alone and burial earth	H2
Labour with man to this his second birth	H2
But where gay palaces in pomp arise	D2
And gilded theatres invade the skies	D2
Nations shall wake whose unrespected bones	I2
Support the pride of their luxurious sons	J2
The most magnificent and costly dome	F2
Is but an upper chamber to a tomb	K2
No spot on earth but has supplied a grave	L2
And human skulls the spacious ocean pave	L2
All's full of man and at this dreadful turn	M2
The swarm shall issue and the hive shall burn	M2
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Not all at once nor in like manner rise	D2
Some lift with pain their slow unwilling eyes	D2
Shrink backward from the terror of the light	N2
And bless the grave and call for lasting night	N2
Others whose long attempted virtue stood	O2
Fix'd as a rock and broke the rushing flood	P2
Whose firm resolve nor beauty could melt down	Q2
Nor raging tyrants from their posture frown	Q2
Such in this day of horrors shall be seen	R2
To face the thunders with a godlike mien	R2
The planets drop their thoughts are fix'd above	S2
The centre shakes their hearts disdain to move	T2
An earth dissolving and a heaven thrown wide	U2
A yawning gulf and fiends on every side	U2
Serene they view impatient of delay	X
And bless the dawn of everlasting day	X
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Here greatness prostrate falls there strength gives place	L
Here lazars smile there beauty hides her face	L
Christians and Jews and Turks and Pagans stand	V2
A blended throng one undistinguish'd band	V2
Some who perhaps by mutual wounds expired	W2
With zeal for their distinct persuasions fired	X2
In mutual friendship their long slumber break	Y2
And hand in hand their Saviour's love partake	Y2
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But none are flush'd with brighter joy or warm	Z2
With juster confidence enjoy the storm	Z2
Than those whose pious bounties unconfined	F
Have made them public fathers of mankind	F
In that illustrious rank what shining light	N2
With such distinguish'd glory fills my sight	N2
Bend down my grateful Muse that homage show	S
Which to such worthies thou art proud to owe	S
Wykeham Fox Chicheley hail illustrious names	A3
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Who to far distant times dispense your beams	B3
Beneath your shades and near your crystal springs	C3
I first presumed to touch the trembling strings	C3
All hail thrice honour'd 'Twas your great renown	Q2
To bless a people and oblige a crown	Q2
And now you rise eternally to shine	H
Eternally to drink the rays Divine	H
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Indulgent God O how shall mortal raise	D3
His soul to due returns of grateful praise	D3
For bounty so profuse to human kind	F
Thy wondrous gift of an eternal mind	F
Shall I who some few years ago was less	E3
Than worm or mite or shadow can express	E3
Was nothing shall I live when every fire	F3
And every star shall languish and expire	G3
When earth's no more shall I survive above	S2
And through the radiant files of angels move	T2
Or as before the throne of God I stand	V2
See new worlds rolling from His spacious hand	V2
Where our adventures shall perhaps be taught	H3
As we now tell how Michael sung or fought	H3
All that has being in full concert join	G
And celebrate the depths of Love Divine	H
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But O before this blissful state before	V
The' aspiring soul this wondrous height can soar	V
The Judge descending thunders from afar	I3
And all mankind is summon'd to the bar	I3
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This mighty scene I next presume to draw	J3
Attend great Anna with religious awe	K3
Expect not here the known successful arts	L3
To win attention and command our hearts	L3
Fiction be far away let no machine	R2
Descending here no fabled God be seen	R2
Behold the God of gods indeed descend	Y
And worlds unnumber'd His approach attend	Y
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Lo the wide theatre whose ample space	L
Must entertain the whole of human race	L
At Heaven's all powerful edict is prepared	M3
And fenced around with an immortal guard	N3
Tribes provinces dominions worlds o'erflow	X
The mighty plain and deluge all below	X
And every age and nation pours along	O3
Nimrod and Bourbon mingle in the throng	O3
Adam salutes his youngest son no sign	H
Of all those ages which their births disjoin	H
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How empty learning and how vain is art	P3
But as it mends the life and guides the heart	P3
What volumes have been swell'd what time been spent	Q3
To fix a hero's birth day or descent	Q3
What joy must it now yield what rapture raise	D3
To see the glorious race of ancient days	D3
To greet those worthies who perhaps have stood	O2
Illustrious on record before the flood	P2
Alas a nearer care	J

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