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Thus sung the king some angel reach a bough	A
From Eden's tree to crown the wisest brow	A
And now thou fairest garden ever made	B
Broad banks of spices blossom'd walks of shade	B
O Lebanon where much I love to dwell	C
Since I must leave thee Lebanon farewel	C
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Swift from my soul the fair Idea flies	D
A wilder sight the changing scene supplies	D
Wide seas come rolling to my future page	E
And storms stand ready when I call to rage	E
Then go where Joppa crowns the winding shore	F
The prophet Jonah just arrives before	F
He sees a ship unmooring soft the gales	G
He pays and enters and the vessel sails	G
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Ah wou'dst thou fly thy God rash man forbear	F
What land so distant but thy God is there	F
Weak reason cease thy voice They run the deep	H
And the tir'd prophet lays his limbs to sleep	H
Here God speaks louder sends a storm to sea	I
The clouds remove to give the vengeance way	J
Strong blasts come whistling by degrees they roar	F
And shove big surges tumbling on to shore	F
The vessel bounds then rolls and ev'ry blast	K
Works hard to tear her by the groaning mast	K
The sailors doubling all their shouts and cares	L
Furl the white canvas and cast forth the wares	L
Each seek the God their native regions own	M
In vain they seek them for those Gods were none	N
Yet Jonah slept the while who solely knew	O
In all that number where to find the true	O
To whom the pilot sleeper rise and pray	J
Our Gods are deaf may thine do more than they	J
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But thus the rest perhaps we waft a foe	P
To heav'n itself and that's our cause of woe	P
Let's seek by lots if heav'n be pleas'd to tell	C
And what they sought by lots on Jonah fell	C
Then whence he came and who and what and why	Q
Thus rag'd the tempest all confus'dly cry	Q
Each press'd in haste to get his question heard	R
When Jonah stops them with a grave regard	S
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An Hebrew man you see who God revere	F
He made this world and makes this world his care	F
His the whirl'd sky these waves that lift their head	T
And his yon land on which you long to tread	T
He charg'd me late to Nineveh repair	F
And to their face denounce his sentence there	F
Go said the vision prophet preach to all	C
Yet forty days and Nineveh shall fall	C
But well I knew him gracious to forgive	U
And much my zeal abhor'd the bad shou'd live	V
And if they turn they live then what were I	Q
But some false prophet when they fail to die	Q
Or what I fanci'd had the Gentiles too	O
With Hebrew prophets and their God to do	O
Drawn by the wilful thoughts my soil I run	N
I fled his presence and the work's undone	N
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The storm increases as the prophet speaks	W
O'er the toss'd ship a foaming billow breaks	X
She rises pendant on the lifted waves	Y
And thence descries a thousand watry graves	Y
Then downward rushing watry mountains hide	Z
Her hulk beneath in deaths on ev'ry side	Z
O cry the sailors all thy fact was ill	C
Yet if a prophet speak thy master's will	C
What part is ours with thee can ought remain	A2
To bring the blessings of a calm again	B2
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Then Jonah mine's the death will best atone	M
And God is pleas'd that I pronounce my own	M
Arise and cast me forth the wind will cease	C2
The sea subsiding wear the looks of peace	C2
And you securely steer For well I see	I
Myself the criminal the storm for me	I
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Yet pity moves for one that owns a blame	D2
And awe resulting from a prophet's name	D2
Love pleads he kindly meant for them to die	Q
Fear pleads against him lest they pow'r defy	Q
If then to aid the flight abets the sin	E2
They think to land him where they took him in	E2
Perhaps to quit the cause might end the woe	P
And God appeasing let the vessel go	P
For this they fix their oars and strike the main	A2
But God withstands them and they strike in vain	A2
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The storm increases more with want of light	F2
Low black'ning clouds involve the ship in night	F2
Thick batt'ring rains fly thro' the driving skies	D
Loud thunder bellows darted light'ning flies	D
A dreadful picture night born horrour drew	O
And his or theirs or both their fates they view	O
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Then thus to God they cry Almighty pow'r	F
Whom we ne'er knew 'till this despairing hour	F
From this devoted blood thy servants free	I
To us he's innocent if so to thee	I
In all the past we see thy wond'rous hand	G2
And that he perish think it thy command	G2
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This pray'r perform'd they cast the prophet o'er	F
A surge receives him and he mounts no more	F
Then stills the thunder cease the flames of blue	O
The rains abated and the winds withdrew	O
The clouds ride off and as they march away	J
Thro' ev'ry breaking shoots a chearful day	J
The sea which rag'd so loud accepts the prize	D
A while it rolls then all the tempest dies	D
By gradual sinking flat the surface grows	H2
And safe the vessel with the sailors goes	H2
The Lion thus that bounds the fences o'er	F
And makes the Mountain Ecchoes learn to roar	F
If on the lawn a branching deer he rend	J
Then falls his hunger all his roarings end	J
Murm'ring a while to rest his limbs he lays	I2
And the freed lawn enjoys its herd at ease	J2
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Bless'd with the sudden calm the sailors own	M
That wretched Jonah worship'd right alone	M
Then make their vows the victim sheep prepare	F
Bemoan the prophet and the God revere	F
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Now tho' you fear to loose the pow'r to breath	K2
Now tho' you tremble Fancy dive beneath	L2
What world of wonders in the deep are seen	M2
But this the greatest Jonah lives within	E2
The man who fondly fled the Maker's view	O
Strange as the crime has found a dungeon too	O
God sent a monster of the frothing sea	I
Fit by the bulk to gorge the living prey	J
And lodge him still alive this hulk receives	N2
The falling prophet as he dash'd the waves	Y
There newly wak'd from fanci'd death he lies	D
And oft again in apprehension dies	D
While three long days and nights depriv'd of sleep	H
He turn'd and toss'd him up and down the deep	H
He thinks the judgment of the strangest kind	J
And much he wonders what the Lord design'd	J
Yet since he lives the gift of life he weighs	I2
That's time for pray'r and thus a ground for praise	I2
From the dark entrails of the whale to thee	I
This new contrivance of a hell to me	I
To thee my God I cry'd my full distress	O2
Pierc'd thy kind ear and brought my soul redress	O2
Cast to the deep I fell by thy command	J
Cast in the midst beyond the reach of land	J
Then to the midst brought down the seas abide	J
Beneath my feet the seas on ev'ry side	J
In storms the billow and in calms the wave	P2
Are moving cov'rings to my wand'ring grave	P2
Forc'd by despair I cry'd how to my cost	J
I fled thy presence Oh for ever lost	J
But hope revives my soul and makes me say	J
Yet tow'rds thy temple shall I turn and pray	J
Or if I know not here where Salem lies	D
Thy temple's heav'n and faith has inward eyes	D
Alas the waters which my whale surround	J
Have thro' my sorr'wing soul a passage found	J
And now the dungeon moves new depths I try	Q
New thoughts of danger all his paths supply	Q
The last of Deeps affords the last of dread	J
And wraps its funeral weeds around my head	J
Now o'er the sand his rollings seem to go	P
Where the big mountains root their base below	P
And now to rocks and clefts their course they take	Q2
Earth's endless bars too strong for me to break	Q2
Yet from th' Abyss my God thy grace divine	R2
Hath call'd him upward and my life is mine	R2
Still as I toss'd I scarce retain'd my breath	K2
My soul was sick within and faint to death	K2
'Twas then I thought of thee for pity pray'd	J
And to thy temple flew the pray'rs I made	J
The men whom lying vanity insnares	D
Forsake thy mercy that which might be theirs	D
But I will pay my God my King receive	S2
The solemn vows my full affection give	U
When in thy temple for a psalm I sing	T2
Salvation only from my God my king	T2
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Thus ends the prophet first from Canaan sent	J
To let the Gentiles know they must repent	J
God hears and speaks the Whale at God's command	J
Heaves to the light and casts him forth to land	J
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With long fatigue with unexpected	J

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