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A poem on divine revelation

being an exercise delivered At the Public Commencement at Nassau-Hall, September 28. 1774

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Now Rome imperial, mistress of the world
Drinks the pure lustre of the orient ray
Assuaging her fierce thirst of bloody war,

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Dominion boundless, victory and fame;
Each bold centurion, and each prætor finds
A nobler empire to subdue themselves.