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Ye states and empires nor of empires least	A
Though least in size hear Britain thou whose lot	B
Whose final lot is in the balance laid	C
Irresolutely play the doubtful scales	D
Nor know'st thou which will win Know then from me	E
As govern'd well or ill states sink or rise	F
State ministers as upright or corrupt	G
Are balm or poison in a nation's veins	H
Health or distemper hasten or retard	I
The period of her pride her day of doom	J
And though for reasons obvious to the wise	F
Just Providence deals otherwise with men	K
Yet believe Britons nor too late believe	L
'Tis fix'd by fate irrevocably fix'd	M
Virtue and vice are empire's life and death	N
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Thus it is written Heard you not a groan	O
Is Britain on her death bed No that groan	O
Was utter'd by her foes but soon the scale	P
If this divine monition is despis'd	Q
May turn against us Read it ye who rule	R
With reverence read with steadfastness believe	L
With courage act as such belief inspires	S
Then shall your glory stand like fate's decree	E
Then shall your name in adamant be writ	T
In records that defy the tooth of time	U
By nations sav'd resounding your applause	V
While deep beyond your monument's proud base	W
In black oblivion's kennel shall be trod	X
Their execrable names who high in power	Y
And deep in guilt most ominously shine	Z
The meteors of the state give vice her head	A2
To license lewd let loose the public rein	B2
Quench every spark of conscience in the land	C2
And triumph in the profligate's applause	V
Or who to the first bidder sell their souls	D2
Their country sell sell all their fathers bought	B
With funds exhausted and exhausted veins	H
To demons by his holiness ordain'd	E2
To propagate the gospel penn'd at Rome	F2
Hawk'd through the world by consecrated bulls	G2
And how illustrated by Smithfleld flames	H2
Who plunge but not like Curtius down the gulf	I2
Down narrow minded self's voracious gulf	I2
Which gapes and swallows all they swore to save	J2
Hate all that lifted heroes into gods	K2
And hug the horrors of a victor's chain	B2
Of bodies politic that destin'd hell	L2
Inflicted here since here their beings end	M2
And fall from foes detested and despis'd	Q
On disbelievers of the statesman's creed	N2
Note here my lord unnoted yet it lies	F
By most or all these truths political	O2
Serve more than public ends this creed of states	P2
Seconds and irresistibly supports	Q2
The Christian creed Are you surpris'd Attend	M2
And on the statesman's build a nobler name	R2
This punctual justice exercis'd on states	P2
With which authentic chronicle abounds	S2
As all men know and therefore must believe	L
This vengeance pour'd on nations ripe in guilt	T2
Pour'd on them here where only they exist	U2
What is it but an argument of sense	V2
Or rather demonstration to support	W2
Our feeble faith That they who states compose	X2
That men who stand not bounded by the grave	J2
Shall meet like measure at their proper hour	Y
For God is equal similarly deals	Y2
With states and persons or he were not God	X
What means a rectitude immutable	O2
A pattern here of universal right	Z2
What then shall rescue an abandon'd man	A3
Nothing it is replied Replied by whom	J
Replied by politicians well as priests	B3
Writ sacred set aside mankind's own writ	T
The whole world's annals these pronounce his doom	J
Thus what might seem a daring paradox	C3
E'en politics advance divinity	E
True masters there are better scholars here	D3
Who travel history in quest of schemes	E3
To govern nations or perhaps oppress	F3
May there start truths that other aims inspire	G3
And like Candace's eunuch as they read	A2
By Providence turn Christians on their road	H3
Digging for silver they may strike on gold	I3
May be surpris'd with better than they sought	J3
And entertain an angel unawares	K3
Nor is divinity ungrateful found	L3
As politics advance divinity	E
Thus in return divinity promotes	M3
True politics and crowns the statesman's praise	N3
All wisdoms are but branches of the chief	O3
And statesmen found but shoots of honest men	K
Are this world's witchcrafts pleaded in excuse	P3
For deviations in our moral line	Z
This and the next world view'd with such an eye	Q3
As suits a statesman such as keeps in view	R3
His own exalted science both conspire	Y
To recommend and fix us in the right	Z2
If we reward the politics of Heaven	S3
The grand administration of the whole	T3
What's the next world A supplement of this	U3
Without it justice is defective here	D3
Just as to states defective as to men	K
If so what is this world As sure as right	Z2
Sits in Heaven's throne a prophet of the next	V3
Prize you the prophet then believe him too	R3
His prophecy more precious than his smile	W3
How comes it then to pass with most on earth	X3
That this should charm us that should discompose	U3
Long as the statesman finds this case his own	O
So long his politics are uncomplete	Y3
In danger he nor is the nation safe	Z3
But soon must rue his inauspicious power	Y
What hence results a truth that should resound	L3
For ever awful in Britannia's ear	D3
Religion crowns the statesman and the man	A3
Sole source of public and of private peace	U3
This truth all men must own and therefore will	A4
And praise and preach it too and when that's done	S3
Their compliment is paid and 'tis forgot	B
What highland pole axe half so deep can wound	L3
But how dare I so mean presume so far	B4
Assume my seat in the dictator's chair	C4
Pronounce predict as if indeed inspir'd	D4
Promulge my censures lay out all my throat	E4
Till hoarse in clamour on enormous crimes	U3
Two mighty columns rise in my support	W2
In their more awful and authentic voice	U3
Record profane and sacred drown the muse	U3
Tho' loud and far out thread her threatening song	F4
Still further Holles suffer me to plead	N2
That I speak freely as I speak to thee	E
Guilt only startles at the name of guilt	T2
And truth plain truth is welcome to the wise	U3
Thus what seem'd my presumption is thy praise	U3
Praise and immortal praise is virtue's claim	R2
And virtue's sphere is action yet we grant	G4
Some merit to the trumpet's loud alarm	H4
Whose clangour kindles cowards into men	K
Nor shall the verse perhaps be quite forgot	B
Which talks of immortality and bids	U3
In every British breast true glory rise	U3
As now the warbling lark awakes the morn	I4
To close my lord with that which all should close	U3
And all begin and strike us every hour	Y
Though no war wak'd us no black tempest frown'd	L3
The morning rises gay yet gayest morn	I4
Less glorious after night's incumbent shades	U3
Less glorious far bright nature rich array'd	C
With golden robes in all the pomp of noon	J4
Than the first feeble dawn of moral day	K4
Sole day let those whom statesmen serve attend	M2
Though the sun ripens diamonds for their crowns	U3
Sole day worth his regard whom Heaven ordains	U3
Undarken'd to behold noon dark and date	L4
From the sun's death and every planet's fall	M4
His all illustrious and eternal year	N4
Where statesmen and their monarchs names of awe	O4
And distance here shall rank with common men	K
Yet own their glory never dawn'd before	P4

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