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When Murder bard her arm & rampant War,
Yokd the red dragons of her iron car:
When peace & mercy banishd from the plain.
Sprung on the viewless winds to Heav'n again.

Published as the Act directs, by Longman & Co Jan.1*1812.

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Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear

More sweet than all the landscape smiling near?—

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,

And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Thus, with delight, we linger to survey,

The promis'd joys of life's unmeasur'd way;

Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene

More pleasing seems than all the past hath been; And every form, that Fancy can repair

From dark oblivion, glows divinely there.

What potent spirit guides the raptured eye

To pierce the shades of dim futurity?

Can Wisdom lend, with all her heav'nly pow'r,

The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour?

Ah, no! she darkly sees the fate of man

Her dim horizon bounded to a span;

Or, if she hold an image to the view,

'Tis Nature pictured too severely true.

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