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 | The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes |  |
Such deeds the minister, the prince, adorn.
No power is shown but in such deeds as these:
All, all is impotence but acting right:
And where's the statesman but would show his power?
To prince and people thou of equal zeal!
Be it henceforward but thy second care
To grace thy country, and support the throne;
Though this supported, that adorn'd, so well.
A Throne Superior our first homage claims;
To Cæsar's Cæsar our first tribute due;
A tribute which unpaid makes specious wrong
And splendid sacrilege of all beside.
Illustrious follows; we must first be just:
And what so just as awe for the Supreme?
Less fear we rugged ruffians of the north,
Than Virtue's well-clad rebels nearer home;
Less Loyola's disguised, all-aping sons,
Than traitors lurking in our appetites;
Less all the legions Seine and Tagus send,
Than unrein'd passions rushing on our peace:
Yon savage mountaineers are tame to these.
Against those rioters send forth the laws,
And break to Reason's yoke their wild careers.
No power is shown but in such deeds as these:
All, all is impotence but acting right:
And where's the statesman but would show his power?
To prince and people thou of equal zeal!
Be it henceforward but thy second care
To grace thy country, and support the throne;
Though this supported, that adorn'd, so well.
A Throne Superior our first homage claims;
To Cæsar's Cæsar our first tribute due;
A tribute which unpaid makes specious wrong
And splendid sacrilege of all beside.
Illustrious follows; we must first be just:
And what so just as awe for the Supreme?
Less fear we rugged ruffians of the north,
Than Virtue's well-clad rebels nearer home;
Less Loyola's disguised, all-aping sons,
Than traitors lurking in our appetites;
Less all the legions Seine and Tagus send,
Than unrein'd passions rushing on our peace:
Yon savage mountaineers are tame to these.
Against those rioters send forth the laws,
And break to Reason's yoke their wild careers.
| The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes | |