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When Murder bar'd her arm & rampant Wai Tok'd the red dragons of her iron car!: When peace & mercy banish'd from the plain,

Sprung on the viewless winds to.

Heav'n

again.

Published as the Act directs by Longman & Rees, London,1July 1800.

With thee, fweet Hope! refides the heav'nly light,

That pours remotest rapture on the fight:

Thine is the charm of life's bewilder'd way,

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That calls each flumb'ring paffion into play:
Wak'd by thy touch, I fee the fifter band,
On tiptoe watching, ftart at thy command,
And fly where'er thy mandate bids them steer,
To Pleasure's path, or Glory's bright career.

Primeval Hope, the Aonian Mufes fay,

When Man and Nature mourn'd their firft decay;

When every form of death, and every woe,

Shot from malignant stars to earth below;

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When Murder bar'd his arm, and rampant War

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Yok'd the red dragons of her iron car;

When Peace and Mercy, banish'd from the plain,

Sprung on the viewless winds to Heav'n again ; .
All, all forfook the friendless guilty mind,

But Hope, the charmer, linger'd ftill behind.

Thus, while Elijah's burning wheels prepare, From Carmel's height, to fweep the fields of air, The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropp'd on the world—a facred gift to man.

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Aufpicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe: Won by their fweets, in Nature's languid hour, The way-worn pilgrim feeks thy fummer bower; There, as the wild-bee murmurs on the wing, What peaceful dreams thy handmaid spirits bring!

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