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'Tis night the busy ceaseless noise of day	A
No more is heard the now deserted streets	B
Lie dark and silent London's weary swarms	C
Rest in profound repose Hark a loud cry	D
Frightens the silence 'tis the cry of fire	E
I hear the dissonance of rattling wheels	F
The tread of hasty feet the doleful sigh	D
Of sympathy and terror's thrilling shriek	G
O mercy heaven	H
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Behold the fiery Pest	I
See how the flames climb up the lofty walls	J
Involve their prey and greedily devour	E
The crowd exert their efforts to controul	K
The spreading bane some labour to supply	K
The numerous engines others bear aloft	L
The pliant tubes guiding their watery store	M
Amid the fiercer fire on ladders some	N
Ascending scale the walls and undeterr'd	O
Their dangerous office ply some wildly haste	P
To save their properties 'tis bustle all	K
And noisy tumult Doubtful for a time	Q
The strife remains where'er the Burning winds	R
His flamy spires the well directed streams	S
Incessant spouting damp the sickening flames	T
Repelling their advance but oft repulsed	U
As oft they rally with recruited strength	V
Alternate in the mind rise hope and fear	W
Tumbles a roof with clattering noise the sky	K
Lightens a burst of clamour all is hush'd	X
In awful stillness save that from beneath	Y
The ruins fall'n is heard a muttering sound	Z
As if the Demon of the element	A2
In indignation menaced dire revenge	B2
Ah now unchain'd by some mysterious Power	E
Some Fiend of air in league with That of fire	E
The wind begins to howl its breath awakes	T
The sleepy flames loud and more loud it howls	T
And rushes on them with collected might	C2
Before the driving spirit burst the flames	T
In a redoubled tempest and deride	D2
Opposing man See how they proudly toss	T
Their many heads on high and through the vault	E2
Of darkness fling a sad malignant day	A
Look with what fury what resistless rage	F2
From street to street the fiery Deluge pours	T
His rapid billows swallowing everything	G2
In horrible destruction lowly roofs	T
And gorgeous mansions lofty spires and domes	T
Capacious on whose fair majestic tops	T
As on her throne exalted Art assumed	H2
Her noblest honours whose firm pillars braved	I2
Storms and the still corroding course of years	T
These these with all their wealth the various stores	T
Of luxury and commerce to the flames	T
Abandon'd sink an undefended prey	A
Swelling the general wreck unheeded sink	J2
By their possessors flying for their lives	T
Cries groans laments on every side resound	Z
	-
Sudden a magazine of nitrous grain	K2
Bursts in a blazing column to the clouds	T
The dread explosion shakes the solid ground	Z
And through the skies in lengthening thunder rolls	T
Driven by the furious overwhelming blast	L2
To distance round the burning fragments fall	K
On every side see see yon ships catch fire	E
Their rigging's in a blaze affrighted Thames	T
Shrinks from the sight his waters cast a gleam	M2
Portentous dismal like the light of hell	K
	-
Before the Conflagration numbers fly	K
Frighted in throngs precipitate to seek	G
A refuge in the distant fields secure	N2
Which cover'd thick with victims of distress	T
Present a wretched world There Youth surprised	O2
By hard experience learns alas too soon	P2
The destiny of Man and from those eyes	T
Where expectation and unclouded joy	Q2
Serenely shone the streams of sorrow flow	K
There helpless Age robb'd of the scanty means	T
A life of labour earn'd driven from his home	R2
To wander destitute the vale of years	T
Yields to despondence tears his hoary locks	T
Falls on the ground and eagerly implores	T
Rest in the grave there gazing on the fires	T
The tender Mother stands her frenzied soul	K
Glares from her look her bosom heaves a groan	S2
She hugs her crying infant to her heart	T2
Despairing lost what countless forms of wo	K
Lethargic some and mute some giving loose	T
To their distracted feelings rave aloud	U2
In all the clamorous vehemence of grief	V2
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The din subsides a voice distinctly heard	O
A frantic voice exclaims my child my child	W2
My child is in the flames Oh horrible	K
What succour what resource the roaring wind	X2
More fiercely blows the Burning pours along	Y2
The skies are lighten'd Uproar opens wide	D2
His thousand mouths Danger and Ruin prowl	K
At large with boundless license all is doubt	Z2
And consternation one tempestuous sea	T
Of wretchedness one chaos of despair	A3
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Seized with wild fear Imagination sees	T
The elements broke loose Time on the brink	J2
Of dread Eternity with all the signs	T
Of that tremendous period when the dead	B3
Shall rise to judgment hush'd in solemn awe	C3
Listening the trump of doom	D3
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Thus raged the storm	E3
Till the great God of heaven in mercy bade	F3
The wind be silent bade the gathering clouds	T
Pour down abundant rain the raging Fires	T
In prompt obedience to the sovereign will	K
Of their Creator dwindled and expired	G3

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