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On the Statue in the Privy Garden
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He scourged their sin with famine, plague, and sword.
All they and more could no repentance bring;
Then in a greater rage he sent them such a king,
A James-like king, as his severest rod,
The utmost vengeance of an angry God.
God in his wrath gave Saul to sinful Jewry
And Second James to us in greater fury,
For Saul in sin was no more like our James
Than little Jordan can compare with Thames.
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