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Now on Atlantic waves he rides afar, -
Where Andes, giant of the western star,
With meteor standard to the windsunfurld,
Looks from his throne of clouds verhalf the world.

Published as the Aet directs by Longman & Rees, London, 16 July.1000.

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

That pours remoteft 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 Muses say,

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 friendlefs guilty mind,
But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind.

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

Aufpicious Hope! in thy fweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe: Won by their sweets, 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 fpirits bring!

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When Murder bar'd her arm & rampant War
Yok'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, July 1800.

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