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Poems, on sacred and other subjects

and songs, humorous and sentimental: By the late William Watt. Third edition of the songs only--with additional songs

Watt, William

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An Acrostic.

VENI, VIDI, VICI—I came, I saw, I conquered.

Veil'd in humanity's dark shroud,
Eternal Power and Wisdom came,
No pomp he wore to rouse the crowd,
In rapture to extol his fame.

Virtue, he saw, had fled the world;
Ire, fierce as hell, the sceptre sway'd;
Demoniac powers their vengeance hurl'd,
In wrath, on man's devoted head.

Victorious then did Jesus wield,
In Godhead's might, his flaming sword,
Carrying sheer conquest o'er the field:
In songs of triumph praise the Lord.

A sentence which Cæsar caused to be written on a table, and carried aloft, when he triumphed after a signal victory. —Vide Prid.