Anticipation or, The Prize Address; which will be delivered on the opening of the new Drury-Lane Theatre, by the manager, in the character of Peter Puncheon, a landlord. Now first published, for the sake of gratifying the impatient Curiosity of every Rank of Society. By Philomath Wizard, astrologer [i.e. John Wolcot] |
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The sage who peeps into futurity,
May prophesy with much security;
And say what chickens Father Time
Will, hen-like, hatch in prose and rhyme:
But, Lord! how few, let me remark,
Can pierce the blanket of the dark!
Resembling that sweet bird of morn,
On airy wing sublimely borne,
That ere the valley feel the ray,
Proclaims the birth of bright'ning day.
May prophesy with much security;
And say what chickens Father Time
Will, hen-like, hatch in prose and rhyme:
But, Lord! how few, let me remark,
Can pierce the blanket of the dark!
Resembling that sweet bird of morn,
On airy wing sublimely borne,
That ere the valley feel the ray,
Proclaims the birth of bright'ning day.
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