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In one dark age beneath a single hand	A
Thus rose an empire in the savage land	A
Her golden seats with following years increase	B
Her growing nations spread the walks of peace	B
Her sacred rites display the purest plan	C
That e'er adorn'd the unguided mind of man	C
Yet all the pomp the extended climes unfold	D
The fields of verdure and the towers of gold	D
Those works of peace and sovereign scenes of state	E
In short lived glory hasten to their fate	E
Thy followers rushing like an angry flood	F
Shall whelm the fields and stain the shrines in blood	F
Nor thou Las Casas best of men shalt stay	G
The ravening legions from their guardless prey	G
Oh hapless prelate hero saint and sage	H
Doom'd with hard guilt a fruitless war to wage	H
To see with grief thy life of virtues run	I
A realm unpeopled and a world undone	I
While impious Valverde mock of priesthood stands	J
Guilt in his heart the gospel in his hands	J
Bids in one field unnumber'd squadrons bleed	K
Smiles o'er the scene and sanctifies the deed	K
And thou brave Gasca with thy virtuous train	L
Shalt lift the sword and urge thy power in vain	L
Vain the late task the sinking land to save	M
Or call her slaughter'd millions from the grave	M
The Seraph spoke Columbus with a sigh	N
Cast o'er the hapless climes his moisten'd eye	N
And thus return'd Oh hide me in the tomb	O
Why should I live to view the impending doom	O
If such dread scenes the scheme of heaven compose	P
And virtuous toils induce redoubled woes	P
Unfold no more but grant a kind release	B
Give me 'tis all I ask to rest in peace	B
Thy soul shall rest in peace the Power rejoin'd	Q
Ere these conflicting shades involve mankind	R
But nobler views shall first thy mind engage	H
Beyond the bounds of this destructive age	H
Where happier fruits of thy unwearied toil	S
Thro' future years and other empires smile	T
Europe's contending realms shall soon behold	D
These fruitful plains and hills of opening gold	D
Fair in the path of thy adventurous fail	U
Their countless navies float in every gale	U
For wealth and commerce sweep the extended shore	V
And load the ocean with the shining ore	V
As up the orient heaven the dawning ray	G
Smiles o'er the world and gives the promised day	G
Drives fraud and rapine from their nightly spoil	S
And social nature wakes to peaceful toil	S
So from the blazing mine the golden store	V
Mid warring nations spreads from shore to shore	V
With new ambition fires their ravish'd eyes	W
O'er factious nobles bids the monarch rise	W
Unites the force of realms the wealth to share	X
Leads larger hosts to milder walks of war	V
The golden scale while rival states suspend	Y
And princely powers their mutual aid extend	Y
Wide o'er the world while genius unconfined	R
Tempts happier flights and opens all the mind	R
Unbinds the slavish bands of monkish lore	V
Awakes the arts and bids the Muses soar	V
Then shall thy northern climes their charms display	G
United nations there extend their sway	G
O'er the new world exalt their peerless throne	Z
And twine thy wreaths immortal on their crown	A2
Now lift thine eye O'er Europe's circling rounds	B2
Where kings contending claim their bordering bounds	B2
Behold in light the nations slowly rise	W
Like trembling vapours in the morning skies	W
Where those long shores their different courses run	I
Round the dim north and tow'rd the eastern sun	I
The naked harbours looking to the main	L
Unfold their bounds and break the winds in vain	L
The labouring ride no foreign treasure brings	C2
No floating forest waves its canvass wings	C2
No busy throngs the lonely margin tread	D2
Nor sails nor cities cast a watery shade	E2
Save where yon opening gulph the strand divides	F2
Proud Venice bathes her in the broken tides	F2
Beholds her scattering barks around her strown	L
And sovereign deems the watery world her own	L
The nations fierce that local faiths enrage	H
In causeless strife perpetual combat wage	H
No martial system claims the monarch's care	X
Nor standing legions guard the realm from war	V
Give general laws to nations and restrain	L
The untemper'd rage of passion's lawless reign	L
But the firm bondage of the slavish mind	R
Spreads deeper glooms and subjugates mankind	R
As the dark northern tribes in elder times	G2
Drove every art from Europe's cultured climes	G2
O'er ruin'd Latium fix'd their savage reign	L
Mid towers o'erturn'd and learned millions slain	L
Thus o'er the same fair seats with deadlier shade	E2
Folly and zeal their sable ensigns spread	D2
Send their cowl'd teachers every sect to blind	R
Stretch the deep mantle and secure the mind	R
Warn from the world by Gallileo's fate	E
Each daring truth that boasts a modern date	E
Support all crimes by full indulgence given	L
Usurp the power and wield the sword of Heaven	L
But see where future years their scenes unroll	G
And rising arts inspire the venturous soul	G
Behold from all the extended coasts of Spain	L
Unnumber'd navies croud the whitening main	L
High o'er the western wave in cloudly flight	H2
They stream and lessen on the varying sight	H2
Dim thro' the isles and middle regions pour	V
Furl the low sails and skirt the masted shore	V
From the long strand the moving loads behold	D
The sparkling gems and heaps of burning gold	D
The sails ascend and tow'rd their native day	G
With heavier burdens win their arduous way	G
Now from all coasts that Europe's realms surround	I2
See the long squadrons o'er the billows bound	I2
Thro' Afric's isles observe the sweeping sails	J2
Full pinions tossing in Arabian gales	J2
Indus and Ganges deep in canvass lost	K2
And navies crouding round each orient coast	L2
New nations rise to light extend the toil	G
Unfold their treasures share the foreign spoil	G
Join distant worlds all climes and oceans brave	M
And shade with sheets the immeasurable wave	M
While rival realms in greater works engage	H
And wake the genius of a happier age	H
Their bounds enlarge and mutual safety share	X
By leagues of peace and standing strength of war	V
See lofty Ximines with solemn gait	E
Move from the cloister to the walks of state	E
Thro' all the extended baronies of Spain	L
Curb the fierce lords and fix the royal reign	L
Behold dread Charles the sovereign seat ascends	M2
O'er kings and climes his eager view extends	M2
Europe's surrounding states before his eyes	W
Lure the wide wish and bid his claims arise	W
While wealthier shores beneath the western day	G
Unfold their treasures and enlarge his sway	G
See the brave Francis lift his banners round	I2
To guard the realms and give his rival bound	I2
With equal pomp the imperial sceptre claim	N2
And fire the nations with an equal name	N2
Unite his kingdom and his power extend	Y
Of arms the patron and of arts the friend	Y
And see proud Wolsey rise securely great	E
Kings in his train and sceptres at his feet	O2
From monkish walls the hoards of wealth he draws	P2
To aid the tyrant and restrain the laws	P2
Wakes Albion's genius abler monarchs braves	Q2
And shares with them the empire of the waves	Q2
Behold dark Solyman from eastern skies	W
With his grim host magnificently rise	W
Extend his limits o'er the midland sea	R2
And tow'rd Germania drive his conquering way	G
Frown o'er the Christian Powers with haughty air	X
And teach the nations how to lead the war	V
There powerful Leo rises into sight	H2
And generous calls the finer arts to light	H2
New walls and structures throng the Latian shore	V
The Pencil triumphs and the Muses soar	V
Snatch'd from the ground where Gothic rage had trod	S2
And monks and prelates held their drear abode	T2
The Roman statues rise and wake to view	U2
The same bold taste their ancient glory knew	U2
O'er the dark world Erasmus casts his eye	N
In schoolmen's lore sees kings and nations lie	N
With strength of judgement and with fancy warm	V2
Derides their follies and dissolves the charm	W2
Draws the deep veil that bigot zeal has thrown	L
O'er pagan Books and science long unknown	L
From faith of pageant rites relieves mankind	R
And seats bol	G

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