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Here pleas'd the land of Freedom to furvey,
He greatly fcorns the thirft of boundless fway :
O'er the thin foil with filent joy he spies
Tranfplanted woods and borrow'd verdure rife,
Where ev'ry meadow won with toil and blood
From haughty tyrants and the raging flood,
With fruit and flow'rs the careful hind fupplies,
And clothes the marshes in a rich disguife;
Such wealth for frugal hands doth Heav'n decree,
And fuch thy gifts, celeftial Liberty!

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Thro' ftately towns and many a fertile plain The pomp advances to the neighb'ring main, Whole nations crowd around with joyful cries, 45 And view the hero with infatiate eyes.

In Haga's tow'rs he waits till eastern gales Propitious rife to fwell the British fails;

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Hither the fame of England's monarch brings
The vows and friendships of the neighb'ring kings.
Mature in wifdom, his exterfive mind

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Takes in the blended int'rents of mankind.
The world's great patriot! calm thy anxious breast';
Secure in him, O Europe! take thy reft :
Henceforth thy kingdoms fhall remain confin'd 55
Byrocksorftreams, the moundswhich Heav'ndefign'd;
The Alps their new made monarch fhall restrain,
Nor fhall thy hills, Pirene! rife in vain.

But fee! to Briton's ifle the fquadrons stand,
And leave the finking tow'rs and leff'ning land; '60

The royal bark bounds o'er the floating plain,

Breaks thro' the billows and divides the main..
O'er the vaft deep, great Monarch! dart thine eyes,
A wat'ry profpect bounded by the skies;

Ten thousand veffels from ten thousand shores
Bring gums and gold, and either India's ftores;
Behold the tributes haft'ning to thy throne,
And fee the wide horizon all thy own!

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Still is it thine. Tho' now the cheerful crew Hail Albion's cliffs juft whitening to the view, 70 Before the wind with fwelling fails they rider. Till Thames receives them in his op'ning tide. The monarch hears the thund'ring peals around, From trembling woods and echoing hills rebound, Nor miffes yet amid the deaf'ning train

The roarings of the hoarse refounding main.

As in the flood he fails from either fide

He views his kingdom in its rural pride;
A various scene the wide spread landscape yields
O'er rich enclosures and luxuriant fields;

A lowing herd each fertile pasture fills,
And distant flocks stray o'er a thousand hills
Fair Greenwich hid in woods with new delight
Shade above fhade now rifes to the fight,
His woods ordain'd to visit ev'ry fhore,
And guard the island which they grac'd before.
The fun now rolling down the western way
Ablaze of fires renews the fading day;

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Unnumber'd barks the regal barge infold,
Bright'ning the twilight with its beamy gold;
Lefs thick the finny shoals, a countless fry!
Before the whale or kingly dolphin fly.
In one vast shout he feeks the crowded strand,
And in a peal of thunder gains the land.

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Welcome, great Stranger! to our longing eyes; 95 Oh king defir'd! adopted Albion cries,

For thee the Eaft breath'd out a profp'rous breeze,
Bright were the funs and gently fwell'd the feas;
'Thy prefence did each doubtful heart compose,
And factions wonder'd that they once were foes; 100
That joyful day they loft each hostile name,
The fame their afpect and their voice the fame.
So two fair twins, whofe features were defign'd
At one foft moment in the mother's mind,
Show each the other with reflected grace,
And the fame beauties bloom in either face,
The puzzled ftrangers which is which inquire,
Delufion grateful to the fmiling fire.

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From that fair hill * where hoary fages boast To name the stars and count the heav'nly hoft, 110 By the next dawn doth great Augusta rise,

Proud Town! the nobleft fcene beneath the skies!
O'er Thames her thousand spires their luftre shed,
And a vaft navy hides his ample bed,

A floating foreft! from the distant strand
A line of golden cars ftrikes o'er the land;
Mr. Flamstead's houfe.

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Britannia's peers in pomp and rich array
Before their king triumphant lead the way:
Far as the eye can reach the gaudy train
A bright proceffion faines along the plain.

So haply thro' the heav'n's wide pathless ways
A comet draws a long extended blaze,
From east to weft burns thro' th' ethereal frame,
And half heav'n's convex glitters with the flame.
Now to the regal tow'rs fecurely brought
He plans Britannia's glories in his thought,
Refumes the delegated pow'r he gave,

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Rewards the faithful and restores the brave. Whom fhall the Mufe from out the shining throng Select to heighten and adorn her fong?

Thee, Halifax! to thy capacious mind,

O Man approv'd' is Britain's wealth confign'd:
Her coin while Naffan fought debas'd and rude,
By thee in beauty and in truth renew'd,
An arduous work! again thy charge we fee,
And thy own care once more returns to thee.
O! form'd in ev'ry scene to awe and please,
Mix wit with pomp and dignity with cafe,
Tho' call'd to fhine aloft, thou wilt not fcorn
To fmile on arts thyfelf did once adorn :·
For this thy name fucceeding times fhall praise,
And envy lefs thy garter than thy bays.

The Mufe, if fir'd with thy enliv'ning beams,
Perhaps fhall aim at more exalted themes,

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Record our monarch in a nobler strain,
And fing the op'ning wonders of his reign;
Bright Carolina's heav'nly beauties trace,
Her valiant confort and his blooming race.

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A train of kings their fruitful love supplies,

A glorious scene to Albion's ravish'd eyes,
Who fees by Brunswick's hand her fceptre fway'd,
And thro' his line from age to age convey'd.

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THOUGHTS OCCASIONED BY THE SIGHT OF AN

ORIGINAL PICTURE OF

KING CHARLES I

Taken at the time of his Trial.

INSCRIBED to GEORGE CLARKE, ESQ.

Animum pictura pafcit inani

"Multa gemens, largoque humectat flumine vultum."

VIRG.

CAN this be he! could Charles, the good, the great,
Be funk by Heav'n to such a dismal ftate!
How meagre, pale, neglected, worn with care!
What steady sadness and august despair!
In thofe funk eyes the grief of years I trace,
And forrow feems acquainted with that face.
Tears which his heart disdain'd from me o'erflow
Thus to furvey God's fubftitute below

In folemn anguish and majestick wo!

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