Humanity, or the rights of nature, a poem in two books. By the author of sympathy [i.e. S. J. Pratt] |
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But oh! thou Land, of Heav'n itself belov'd,
What dire events, what changes hast thou prov'd?
How has time alter'd ev'ry charm of youth,
Since first thou heard'st the oracles of truth!
Forgot the Heavenly claims that once were thine,
Forgot the precepts breath'd from lips divine;
Vain all the fathers, all a saviour taught,
And God expell'd for what th'Imposter brought,
A sensual creed by a mock prophet prais'd,
The sacred Bible sunk, the Koran rais'd,
Disgrac'd the truths, which all th'Apostles gave,
Thy Prince a tyrant, and Thyself a slave!
What dire events, what changes hast thou prov'd?
How has time alter'd ev'ry charm of youth,
Since first thou heard'st the oracles of truth!
Forgot the Heavenly claims that once were thine,
Forgot the precepts breath'd from lips divine;
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And God expell'd for what th'Imposter brought,
A sensual creed by a mock prophet prais'd,
The sacred Bible sunk, the Koran rais'd,
Disgrac'd the truths, which all th'Apostles gave,
Thy Prince a tyrant, and Thyself a slave!
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