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See, a long race thy fpacious courts adorn
See future fons, and daughters yet unborn,
In crouding ranks on ev'ry fide arise,
Demanding life, impatient for the skies!

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See barb'rous nations at thy gates attend,

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Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend; See thy bright altars throng'd with proftrate kings,

And heap'd with products of "Sabæan springs ! For thee Idume's spicy forests blow,

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And feeds of gold in Ophir's mountains glow.
See heav'n its sparkling portals wide display,
And break upon thee in a flood of day.
No more the rifing Sun fhall gild the morn,
Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her filver horn;
But loft, diffolv'd in thy fuperior rays,
One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze

IMITATIONS.

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ral exclamations of Virgil, which make the loftiest parts of his Pollio.

Magnus ab integro fæclorum nafcitur ordo!
-toto furget gens aurea mundo!

-incipient magni procedere menfes!

Afpice, venturo lætentur ut omnia fæclo! etc.

The reader needs only to turn to the paffages of Ifaiah, here

cited.

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s Ch. Ix. ver. 4.

w Ch. lx, ver. 19, 20.

t Ch. lx. ver. 3.

u Ch. lx. ver. 6.

O'erflow thy courts: the Light himself shall shine
Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine!
The feas fhall wafte, the skies in fmoke decay,
Rocks fall to duft, and mountains melt away; 106
But fix'd his word, his faving pow'r remains :
Thy realm for ever lafts, thy own MESSIAH reigns!

* Ch. li. ver. 6. and Ch. liv. ver. 10.

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WINDSOR-FOREST.

To the RIGHT HONOURABLE

GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN.

Non injuffa cano: Te noftræ, Vare, myricæ,
Te Nemus omne canet; nec Phœbo gratior ulla eft,
Quam fibi quæ Vari præfcripfit pagina nomen.

VIRG.

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