 | 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 |  |
Well may we tremble now: what manners reign?
But wherefore ask we, when a true reply
Would shock too much? Kind Heaven, avert events
Whose fatal nature might reply too plain!
Heaven's half-bared arm of vengeance has been waved
In northern skies, and pointed to the south.
Vengeance, delay'd, but gathers and ferments,
More formidably blackens in the wind,
Brews deeper draughts of unrelenting wrath,
And higher charges the suspended storm.
But wherefore ask we, when a true reply
Would shock too much? Kind Heaven, avert events
Whose fatal nature might reply too plain!
Heaven's half-bared arm of vengeance has been waved
In northern skies, and pointed to the south.
Vengeance, delay'd, but gathers and ferments,
More formidably blackens in the wind,
Brews deeper draughts of unrelenting wrath,
And higher charges the suspended storm.
| 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 | |