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Now blest be Providence divine	A
Surpassing human skill	B
That often takes from things malign	A
The privilege of ill	B
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Good folks who love a simple strain	C
That seems like fancy's sound	D
Rejoicing when in nature's reign	C
The marvellous is found	D
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As strange a tale as history knows	E
Accept in artless rhyme	F
An honest Greek relates in prose	E
This wonder of old time	F
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The antients gloried to describe	G
And held such wonders dear	H
For of the Psylli's signal tribe	G
'Twas their delight to hear	I
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The Psylli were an Afric clan	J
Of wond'rous power possest	D
Fierce snakes of enmity to man	J
They could with ease divest	D
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This gift they boasted with delight	D
A gift to them confin'd	D
Exemption from the viper's bite	D
Of most malignant kind	D
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This native gift they deem'd a test	D
To prove their genuine race	K
By every true born child possest	D
Not granted to the base	K
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In brains that burn from Afric suns	L
Mad jealousy will rise	M
Till thro' the heart the frenzy runs	L
And bursts all tender ties	M
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A Lybian of this far fam'd clan	J
Had dream'd his wife untrue	N
And soon the madd'ning wretch began	J
His child with hate to view	N
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That child which till his fatal dream	O
Was from base slander bred	D
The happy sire with joy extreme	O
Had fondled blest and fed	D
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And never infant more deserv'd	D
To prove his father's joy	P
Of two years old and nobly nerv'd	D
A brave Herculean boy	P
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Nature with passion long at strife	Q
Contended in his breast	D
Till to expose his infant's life	Q
He form'd a deadly test	D
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No common trial would suffice	R
For his suspicious mind	D
His rage a trial would devise	M
Of most tremendous kind	D
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Sansado so the wretch was nam'd	D
A cruel brother taught	D
With equal jealousy inflam'd	D
To aid his barb'rous thought	D
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Him many a deadly snake to feed	D
Sansado would engage	S
And more by many a noxious weed	D
Exasperate their rage	S
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And now the settled day arrives	T
Fixt for their savage joy	P
To risk two unprotected lives	U
Poor Neela and her boy	P
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For if so jealous rage decreed	D
One reptile wounds the child	D
Neela upon that couch must bleed	D
They think she has defil'd	D
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God save thee Neela in a strife	Q
By nature's heart abhorr'd	D
And God defend each hapless wife	Q
Who has a jealous lord	D
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But see the brothers bent on ill	B
Neela yet kind and calm	V
Beholds a knot of Snakes that fill	B
A basket made of palm	V
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No fear her blameless mind alarms	W
But quick with scornful joy	P
One basely holds her by the arms	W
One grasps her fondling boy	P
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The sire himself with gesture wild	D
His thoughtless offspring takes	X
And seats his unoffending child	D
Amidst these angry Snakes	X
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Angry at first they foam'd around	D
The boy who on them prest	D
He unappall'd sat gayly crown'd	D
With many a shining crest	D
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Stretching his little hands he play'd	D
Unconscious of a fear	H
With all the monsters he survey'd	D
And smil'd at every spear	H
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Now free but with a fixt disdain	C
Behold the mother stand	D
She frowns upon the brothers twain	C
Nor takes the proffer'd hand	D
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Do not dear wife my kindness shun	Y
Henceforth my comfort be	Z
And let us jointly bless my son	Y
Who witnesses for thee	Z
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So with quick speed Sansado cried	D
With mingled joy and shame	A2
The noble Neela thus replied	D
With eyes of temperate flame	A2
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No I renounce thee and thy roof	B2
For Heaven who shields my young	C2
Bids me abjure thy love not proof	B2
'Gainst slander's vip'rous tongue	C2
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It is my duty to desert	D
A guard I must despise	M
Farewell weak man my child unhurt	D
On Providence relies	M
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Now brave a coward he might turn	D2
Beneath thy base controul	B
But from his mother he shall learn	D2
The empire of the soul	B
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She spoke she kept with truth most rare	E2
Her purpose nobly wild	D
And made by her maternal care	E2
A hero of her child	D

William Hayley

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