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Thy misery and our shame;

For Mercy shall go forth.

To stablish Order, with an armed right hand; And firm Authority,

With its all-present strength, control the bad, And, with its all-sufficient shield, Protect the innocent:

The first great duty this of lawful Power, Which holds its delegated right from Heaven.

9.

The first great duty this: but this not all;
For more than comes with the scope
Of Power is needed here;

More than to watch insidious discontent, Curb and keep curbed the treasonable tongue, And quell the maddened multitude: Labors of love remain;

To weed out noxious customs, rooted deep
In a rank soil, and long left seeding there;
Pour balm into old wounds, and bind them up;
Remove remediable ills,

Improve the willing mind,
And win the generous heart.
Afflicted Country! from thyself
Must this redemption come;

And thou hast children able to perform
This work of faith and hope.

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Might with the strength of duty reach their souls;
A strength that should compel entire consent,
And to their glad obedience give

The impulse and the force of free good-will!
For who but they can knit

The severed links of that appointed chain,
Which when in just cohesion it unites
Order to order, rank to rank,

In mutual benefit,

So binding heart to heart,

It then connecteth Earth with Heaven, from whence

The golden links depend.

11.

Nor when the war is waged
With Error, and the brood

Of Darkness, will your aid

Be wanting in the cause of Light and Love,
Ye Ministers of that most holy Church
Whose firm foundations on the rock
Of Scripture rest secure!

What though the Romanist, in numbers strong,
In misdirected zeal

And bigotry's blind force,

Assail your Fortress; though the sons of Schism

Join in insane alliance with that old,
Inveterate enemy,

Weening thereby to wreak
Their covenanted hatred, and effect
Your utter overthrow;

What though the unbelieving crew,
For fouler purpose, aid the unnatural league;
And Faction's wolfish pack

Set up their fiercest yell, to augment

The uproar of assault,

Clad in your panoply will ye be found, Wielding the spear of Reason, with the sword Of Scripture girt; and from your shield of Truth Such radiance shall go forth,

As when, unable to sustain its beams
On Arthur's arm unveiled,

Earth-born Orgoglio reeled, as if with wine;
And, from her many-headed beast cast down,
Duessa fell, her cup of sorcery spilt,

Her three-crowned mitre in the dust devolved, And all her secret filthiness exposed.

12.

O thou fair Island, with thy Sister Isle
Indissolubly linked for weal and woe;
Partaker of her present power,
Her everlasting fame,-

Dear pledges hast thou rendered and received
Of that eternal union! Bedell's grave
Is in thy keeping; and, with thee

Deposited, doth Taylor's holy dust
Await the Archangel's call.

O land profuse of genius and of worth! Largely hast thou received, and largely given.

13.

Green Island of the West!

The example of unspotted Ormond's faith
To thee we owe; to thee
Boyle's venerable name;
Berkeley the wise, the good;

And that great Orator who first Unmasked the harlot sorceress Anarchy, What time, in Freedom's borrowed form profaned, She to the nations round

Her draught of witchcraft gave;
And him who in the field

O'erthrew her giant offspring in his strength,
And brake the iron rod.

Proud of such debt,

Rich to be thus indebted, these,

Fair Island, Sister Queen

Of Ocean, Ireland! these to thee we owe.

14.

Shall I then imprecate

A curse on them that would divide
Our union? Far be this from me, O Lord!
Far be it! What is man,

That he should scatter curses? King of kings,

Father of all, Almighty, Governor
Of all things! unto Thee
Humbly I offer up our holier prayer:
I pray Thee, not in wrath,

But in thy mercy, to confound

These men's devices:

Lord,

Lighten their darkness with thy Gospel light,

And thus abate their pride,

Assuage their malice thus!

KESWICK, 1821.

ODE WRITTEN AFTER THE KING'S VISIT TO

SCOTLAND.

1.

AT length hath Scotland seen
The presence long desired;
The pomp of royalty

Hath gladdened once again

Her ancient palace, desolate how long!
From all parts far and near,

Highland and lowland, glen and fertile carse,
The silent mountain lake, the busy port,
Her populous cities, and her pastoral hills,
In generous joy convened

By the free impulse of the loyal heart,

Her sons have gathered, and beheld their King.

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