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Another Song.
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Another Song.
O night, O day, while dayes and nights shall last,'Bove all the dayes and nights that ever past,
To Englands God be hallowed,
With hearts and tongues solemnized,
With Hymns and songs eternized.
Black night and direful day, thou shouldst have been,
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With hellish Tempests darkned,
With Romish murders bloodyed,
With English horror dismalled.
The Train was ready laid, the powder dry,
Faulks, and the blow, I quake to think how nigh.
Now all the Fiends of Hell wide gap'd.
Now all the friends of Rome well hop'd,
Now all England securely slep'd.
But Gods all-seeing never slumbring eye,
As Sentinel kept watch and ward on high,
Their devillish Plots he fore-espyes,
Their Popish Miners he discryes,
Gives King and State deliveries.
Thus Hell and Rome have England twice assay'd,
With force and fraud t' have conquer'd and betray'd;
Their Navy first God scattered,
Their Treason next discovered,
And twice hath us delivered.
'Mongst years let eighty eight be Chronicled,
'Mongst dayes, Novembers fifth be Calendred,
To God let both be hallowed,
With hearts and tongues solemnized,
With himns and songs eternized.
For all, of all, God praised be,
With hearts, tongues, lives, be honour'd he,
Amen, Amen, Amen say we.
FINIS.
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