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and explores the cause;
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Force repel the foe;

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em different souls assign
nd philosophic ease
polish'd arts of peace;
in their vigils keep,
and tame the unwilling deep:
deeds of blood prevail;
sighs in every gale.
nations from afar
he living cloud of war;

Her boasted titles, and her golden
With grim delight the Brood of w
A brighter day, and Heav'ns of a
Scent the new fragrance of the br
And quaff the pendent vintage as
Proud of the yoke, and pliant to t
Why yet does Asia dread a mona
While European freedom still wit
Th' encroaching tide that drown
lands;

And sees far off with an indignan
Her native plains, and empires on
Can opener skies and suns of fier
O'erpower the fire that animates
As lamps, that shed at eve a chee
Fade and expire beneath the eye

What fancied zone can circumscribe the so Who, conscious of the source from when springs,

By Reason's light, on Resolution's wings, Spite of her frail companion, dauntless goes O'er Lybia's deserts and thro' Zembla's sno She bids each slumb'ring energy awake, Another touch, another temper take, Suspends the inferior laws that rule our clay The stubborn elements confess her sway; Their little wants, their low desires, refine, And raise the mortal to a height divine.

Not but the human fabric from the birth Imbibes a flavour of its parent earth. As various tracts enforce a various toil, The manners speak the idiom of their soil.

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'ring energy awake,
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What wonder, if to patient valour
They guard with spirit what by stren
And while their rocky ramparts re
The rough abode of want and libe
(As lawless force from confidence
Insult the plenty of the vales belo
What wonder, in the sultry climes
Where Nile redundant o'er his su
From his broad bosom life and ver
And broods o'er Ægypt with his v
If with advent'rous oar and ready
The dusky people drive before the
Or on frail floats to neighb'ring ci
That rise and glitter o'er the ambi

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IN Britain's isle, no matter where,

An ancient pile of building stands [1]: The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of Fairy hands

[1] The mansion-house at Stoke-Pogeis, then in the possessi countess Cobham. The house formerly belonged to the Earl tingdon and the family of Hatton.

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Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er My grave Lord-Keeper led the bra

The seals and maces danc'd bef

His bushy-beard, and shoe-strings

His high-crown'd hat, and satin Mov'd the stout heart of England'

Tho' Pope and Spaniard could

What, in the very first beginning Shame of the versifying tribe! Your hist'ry whither are you spinn

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[2] Sir Christopher Hatton, promoted by Qu graceful person and fine dancing.-Brawls were then in vogue.

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