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Poems on Various Subjects

By John Thelwall. In Two Volumes

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STROPHE II.

Yes, Pity, as the furious train,
Who prowling hunt their midnight prey,
Retreating shun the peopled plain,
When fair Aurora's humid ray
Benignly gilds
The cheerful fields;
So, where thy mournful beauty shines,
Resentment flies, and Rage resigns.