The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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The gorgeous fabric of a giant mind
For pure and god-like majesty designed,
When ruined by subverting passion's sway,
Till each immortal impress sink away;
Unbinds the heart-spring of regretful tears,
While wondering pity wakens into fears:
And such feel they, lorn Greece, who look on thee,
Mother and nurse of time-born Liberty!
Now stripp'd and ravaged by avenging Crime,
The wreck of glory, in thy tomb sublime!
For pure and god-like majesty designed,
When ruined by subverting passion's sway,
Till each immortal impress sink away;
Unbinds the heart-spring of regretful tears,
While wondering pity wakens into fears:
And such feel they, lorn Greece, who look on thee,
Mother and nurse of time-born Liberty!
Now stripp'd and ravaged by avenging Crime,
The wreck of glory, in thy tomb sublime!
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