Gaul and Batavia dread th' impending blow; Too well the vigour of that arm they know; They lick the dust, and crouch beneath their fatal foc, And not provoke his lingering fword; In all the changes of his doubtful state, His valour can triumph o'er land and main; With conqueft bafely bought, and with inglorious gain. For once, O heaven, unfold thy adamantine book; And let his wondering fenate fee, If not thy firm immutable decree, At least the second page of ftrong contingency; Let them not still be obftinately blind, To starve the royal virtues of his mind. Faith is a chriftian's and a subject's teft, Oh give them to believe, and they are furely bleft. Th' amended vows of English loyalty. And And all beyond that object, there appears In orderly array, a martial, manly train. A conquering navy proudly fpread; Th' afferted ocean rears his reverend head; The fafces of the main. VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS, C PARAPHRASED. REATOR fpirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come visit every pious mind; Come pour thy joys on human kind; From fin and forrow fet us free, Thou Thou ftrength of his Almighty hand, Whofe power does heaven and earth command. Who doft the gifts of tongues dispense, Refine and purge our earthly parts; Make us eternal truths receive, Eternal Paraclete, to thee. } THE THE SOLILOQUY O F A ROYAL EXILE. UNHAPPY I! who, once ordain'd to bear God's juftice fword, and his vicegerent here, They feek to fpill my blood; 'tis that alone And mere neceffity was made my crime! CON CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. Aftræa Redux, a Poem on the Restoration of King Charles II. 19 30 40 |