Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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CAUSES, Moral and Judicial, Of National Calamities and Commotions. |
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CAUSES, Moral and Judicial, Of National Calamities and Commotions.
Contempt of laws, both human and divine;Unbounded lust, and Bacchus' drunken shrine;
Unbridled passion, luxury, and vice,
That fits for ruin, as it caus'd its rise;
Hard-hearted Avarice, and Injustice' paw,
That gripes the guiltless, and defies the law;
The pomp of pride, the spleen of lawless pow'r,
Ambition's envy, and its thirst of more;
Religion's scorn, the hate of all restraint,
The poor's oppression, and their mock'd complaint:
These are the crimes that mark destruction's line!
And, unrepented, Britain, will be thine!
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