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Side 59
... hast set the persecuted free , None interposes now to succour thee . Countries indebted to thy power , that shine With light derived from thee , would smother thine ; Thy very children watch for thy disgrace- A lawless brood , and curse ...
... hast set the persecuted free , None interposes now to succour thee . Countries indebted to thy power , that shine With light derived from thee , would smother thine ; Thy very children watch for thy disgrace- A lawless brood , and curse ...
Side 60
... Hast thou incurr'à His anger , who can waste thee with a word , Who poises and proportions sea and land , Weighing them in the hollow of his hand , And in whose awful sight all nations seem As grasshoppers , as dust , a drop , a dream ?
... Hast thou incurr'à His anger , who can waste thee with a word , Who poises and proportions sea and land , Weighing them in the hollow of his hand , And in whose awful sight all nations seem As grasshoppers , as dust , a drop , a dream ?
Side 61
... Hast thou , tho ' suckled at fair Freedom's breast , Exported slavery to the conquer'd east ? Pull'd down the tyrants India served with dread , And raised thyself , a greater , in their stead ? Gone thither arm'd and hungry , return'd ...
... Hast thou , tho ' suckled at fair Freedom's breast , Exported slavery to the conquer'd east ? Pull'd down the tyrants India served with dread , And raised thyself , a greater , in their stead ? Gone thither arm'd and hungry , return'd ...
Side 62
William Cowper. ( For thou hast known eclipses , and endured Dimness and anguish , all thy beams obscured , When sin has shed dishonour on thy brow ; And never of a sabler hue than now , ) Hast thou , with heart perverse and conscience ...
William Cowper. ( For thou hast known eclipses , and endured Dimness and anguish , all thy beams obscured , When sin has shed dishonour on thy brow ; And never of a sabler hue than now , ) Hast thou , with heart perverse and conscience ...
Side 66
... surveys the troubled scene , And feels no change , unshaken and serene . Freedom , in other lands scarce known to shine , Pours out a flood of splendour upon thine ; Thou hast as bright an interest in her rays As 66 EXPOSTULATION .
... surveys the troubled scene , And feels no change , unshaken and serene . Freedom , in other lands scarce known to shine , Pours out a flood of splendour upon thine ; Thou hast as bright an interest in her rays As 66 EXPOSTULATION .
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