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A milk white Hind immortal and unchang'd	A
Fed on the lawns and in the forest rang'd	A
Without unspotted innocent within	B
She fear'd no danger for she knew no sin	B
Yet had she oft been chas'd with horns and hounds	C
And Scythian shafts and many winged wounds	D
Aim'd at her heart was often forc'd to fly	E
And doom'd to death though fated not to die	E
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Not so her young for their unequal line	F
Was hero's make half human half divine	F
Their earthly mold obnoxious was to fate	G
Th' immortal part assum'd immortal state	G
Of these a slaughter'd army lay in blood	H
Extended o'er the Caledonian wood	I
Their native walk whose vocal blood arose	J
And cried for pardon on their perjur'd foes	J
Their fate was fruitful and the sanguine seed	K
Endued with souls increas'd the sacred breed	K
So captive Israel multiplied in chains	L
A numerous exile and enjoy'd her pains	L
With grief and gladness mix'd their mother view'd	M
Her martyr'd offspring and their race renew'd	M
Their corps to perish but their kind to last	N
So much the deathless plant the dying fruit surpass'd	N
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Panting and pensive now she rang'd alone	O
And wander'd in the kingdoms once her own	O
The common hunt tho' from their rage restrain'd	P
By sov'reign pow'r her company disdain'd	P
Grinn'd as they pass'd and with a glaring eye	E
Gave gloomy signs of secret enmity	Q
'T is true she bounded by and tripp'd so light	R
They had not time to take a steady sight	R
For Truth has such a face and such a mien	S
As to be lov'd needs only to be seen	S
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The bloody Bear an Independent beast	T
Unlick'd to form in groans her hate express'd	U
Among the timorous kind the Quaking Hare	V
Profess'd neutrality but would not swear	V
Next her the buffoon Ape as atheists use	W
Mimick'd all sects and had his own to choose	X
Still when the Lion look'd his knees he bent	Y
And paid at church a courtier's compliment	Y
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The bristled Baptist Boar impure as he	Q
But whiten'd with the foam of sanctity	Q
With fat pollutions fill'd the sacred place	Z
And mountains levell'd in his furious race	Z
So first rebellion founded was in grace	Z
But since the mighty ravage which he made	A2
In German forests had his guilt betray'd	A2
With broken tusks and with a borrow'd name	B2
He shunn'd the vengeance and conceal'd the shame	B2
So lurk'd in sects unseen With greater guile	C2
False Reynard fed on consecrated spoil	D2
The graceless beast by Athanasius first	E2
Was chas'd from Nice then by Socinus nurs'd	E2
His impious race their blasphemy renew'd	M
And nature's King through nature's optics view'd	M
Revers'd they view'd him lessen'd to their eye	E
Nor in an infant could a God descry	V
New swarming sects to this obliquely tend	F2
Hence they began and here they all will end	F2
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What weight of ancient witness can prevail	G2
If private reason hold the public scale	G2
But gracious God how well dost thou provide	H2
For erring judgments an unerring guide	H2
Thy throne is darkness in th' abyss of light	R
A blaze of glory that forbids the sight	R
O teach me to believe Thee thus conceal'd	I2
And search no farther than Thyself reveal'd	I2
But her alone for my director take	J2
Whom Thou hast promis'd never to forsake	J2
My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires	K2
My manhood long misled by wand'ring fires	K2
Follow'd false lights and when their glimpse was gone	L2
My pride struck out new sparkles of her own	O
Such was I such by nature still I am	M2
Be thine the glory and be mine the shame	B2
Good life be now my task my doubts are done	N2
What more could fright my faith than Three in One	N2
Can I believe eternal God could lie	E
Disguis'd in mortal mould and infancy	Q
That the great Maker of the world could die	E
And after that trust my imperfect sense	O2
Which calls in question his omnipotence	P2
Can I my reason to my faith compel	Q2
And shall my sight and touch and taste rebel	R2
Superior faculties are set aside	H2
Shall their subservient organs be my guide	H2
Then let the moon usurp the rule of day	S2
And winking tapers show the sun his way	S2
For what my senses can themselves perceive	T2
I need no revelation to believe	T2
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The Panther sure the noblest next the Hind	U2
And fairest creature of the spotted kind	U2
Oh could her inborn stains be wash'd away	S2
She were too good to be a beast of prey	S2
How can I praise or blame and not offend	F2
Or how divide the frailty from the friend	F2
Her faults and virtues lie so mix'd that she	Q
Nor wholly stands condemn'd nor wholly free	Q
Then like her injur'd Lion let me speak	V2
He cannot bend her and he would not break	J2
Unkind already and estrang'd in part	W2
The Wolf begins to share her wand'ring heart	W2
Though' unpolluted yet with actual ill	X2
She half commits who sins but in her will	X2
If as our dreaming Platonists report	Y2
There could be spirits of a middle sort	Y2
Too black for heav'n and yet too white for hell	Q2
Who just dropp'd halfway down nor lower fell	Q2
So pois'd so gently she descends from high	E
It seems a soft dismission from the sky	E
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John Dryden

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