The Amaranth Or, religious poems; consisting of fables, visions, emblems, etc. Adorned with copper-plates from the best masters [by Walter Harte] |
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Presumptuous flights and sceptical debatesForetell [Cassandra-like] the fall of states.
So Greece and Rome soon moulder'd to decay,
When Epicurus' system gain'd the day.
But those who make prophaneness stand for wit,
Desp'rate apply the pigeons to their feet:
Bankrupts of sense, and impudently bad;
Their judgement ruin'd, and their fancy mad!
Like Daniel's Goat in th'insolence of youth,
Stars they displace, and over-turn the truth.
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