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[Our City never can subverted be]
Our City never can subverted beBy Jove, or any other Deitie;
For Pallas eye surveyes with pious care
The wals, which by her hand protected are:
Yet the inhabitants of this great Town,
Fondly inclin'd to wealth, will throw it down;
And those unjust great persons who are bent
Others to wrong, themselves to discontent;
For their insatiate fancies have not power
T enjoy the sweetnesse of the instant hower;
But by all wicked means, intent on gain,
From hallowed, nor from publick things refrain.
Riches by theft and cozenage to possesse,
The sacred bounds of justice they transgresse.
Who silent sees the present, knowes the past,
And will revenge these injuries at last:
Causing a cureless rupture in the state,
And all our liberties shall captivate.
Rouse war from his long slumber, who the flower
Of all our youths shall bloodily devour.
For Cities which injuriously oppose
Their friends, are soon invaded by their foes.
These are the common evills; of the poor
Many transported to a forraign shore,
To bondage there, and fetters shall be sold.
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Nor can exclude it with a bar'd-up gate;
For scaling furiously the higher walls,
On those whom beds or corners hides, it falls.
My soule, Athenians, prompts me to relate
What miseries upon injustice wait:
But justice all things orderly designes,
And in strict fetters the unjust confines.
What's soure, she sweetens, and allaies what cloyes.
Wrong she repells, ill in the grouth destroyes,
Softens the stubborn, the unjust reformes,
And in the state calmes all seditious stormes:
Bitter dissention by her raign supprest,
Who wisely governes all things for the best.
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