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Ode On The Departed Regency Bill (第1/2页)
ode on the departed regency bill (march, 1789) daughter of chaos' doting years, nurse of ten thousand hopes and fears, whether thy airy, insubstantial shade (the rights of sepulture now duly paid) spread abroad its hideous form on the r civil storm, deafening din and warring rage fas wild with fas wage; or under-ground, deep-sunk, profound, among the demons of the earth, with groans that make the mountains shake, thou mourn thy ill-starr'd, blighted birth; or in the ued void, where seeds of future being fight, with lessen'd step thou wander wide, to greet thy mother—a night. and as each jarring, monster-mass is past, fond recollect what ohou wast: in manner due, beh this sacred oak, hear, spirit, hear! thy presence i invoke! by a monarch's heaven-struck fate, by a disuate, by a generous prince's wrongs. by a senate's strife of tongues, by a premier's sullen pride, l on the ging tide; by dread thurlow's powers to awe rhetoric, blasphemy and law; by the turbulent o— a nation's otion, by the harlot-caresses of bh addresses, by days few and evil, (thy portion, poor devil!) by power, wealth, and show, (the gods by men adored,) by nameless poverty, (their hell abhorred,) by all they hope, by all they fear, hear! and appear! stare not ohou ghastly power! nrim with ed defiance, lour: no babel-structure would i build where, order exil'd fro
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