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 | Poems on Affairs of State |  |
Of all the Cheats and Shams that have of late
Shock'd our Religion, and embroil'd our State,
None more abuse and leave us in the Lurch,
Than those false Cries of Monarchy and Church:
To these bewitching Sounds, these mighty Charms,
We chiefly owe the Miseries and Harms
That fill'd the two last Reigns: and tho at last
Kind Heav'n an Eye upon our Bondage cast,
And opportunely to our Rescue sent,
These plague us still, and clog our Settlement.
So when the Hebrew Chief, on Egypt's Strand,
Such Wonders wrought by the Almighty's Hand,
That the wish'd Freedom was almost obtain'd,
Two Sham Magicians set it back again.
Shock'd our Religion, and embroil'd our State,
None more abuse and leave us in the Lurch,
Than those false Cries of Monarchy and Church:
To these bewitching Sounds, these mighty Charms,
We chiefly owe the Miseries and Harms
That fill'd the two last Reigns: and tho at last
Kind Heav'n an Eye upon our Bondage cast,
And opportunely to our Rescue sent,
These plague us still, and clog our Settlement.
So when the Hebrew Chief, on Egypt's Strand,
Such Wonders wrought by the Almighty's Hand,
That the wish'd Freedom was almost obtain'd,
Two Sham Magicians set it back again.
| Poems on Affairs of State | |