644 ANNUAL REGISTER, \S\6. 



And rail thy Slandeiers as they will, 

 " Wilh all thy faults I love tliee still :" 

 For faults thou hast, of heinous size ; 

 Repent, renounce thein, ere they jise 



In jiidyment : lest thine Oeean-Avall 



With boundless ruin round thee fall. 

 Ami that which was thy mightiest stay 

 Sweep all thy rocks like sand away. 



Yes, thou hast faults, of heinous size, 

 From which I turn with weeping eyes ; 

 On these let them tliat hate thee dwell : 

 Yet one 1 s|;are not, — one I tell ; 

 Tell with a whisper in tlsine ear ; 

 O may it wring tiiy hciirt with 'ear ! 

 O that my weakest w'ord miglit loU 

 Like heavea'sown thunder thro' thy sou! ! 



There is a lie in thy right himd ; 



A bribe, cor:iii)ting all the land ; 



Theie is witiiin t.hy gates a pest, — 



Gold and .1 Habyloaish vest ; 



\ot hid in .-hame-concealing sha;!e, 



Dut bi'o:'.'! against tiie Bun display'd. 



Thc^e, — tell it not, — it must be UAd ; 



'I'hcse are by Lot — by Lottery — ^old : 



And these, thy CliiUhen, (taught to sin,) 



\'entu)e two worlds' at once to wii^ j 



Nay thy deluded St iti.'Suien stake 



THVSi>LI-, — and h):Se thee, for tiieir sake ! 



L:;se thee ? — t'ley s/ia'/ not ; — UK, wiu.se will 



Is Nature's law, pre-er\es thee still ; 

 And while the' uplifted boit i!i!j)ends, 

 ONE WARNING MOlic, hji^ nieicy ^eiuis. 



O r.ritain ! OmyCuuntiy! b;ing 

 Fo:th f;om tl-.y c.imp th' a<< ai'sed thing; 

 CoiisiL^n it to leuioi sele.-s iiie, 

 U'istch till i! e late-t spMuk exjtire, 

 Then cast the ashes on the wii.d. 

 Nor leave one utom-wieek b?h;nd. 



So may thy wealth .^nd power iiiorei^Jie ; 

 So may thy pi o]jle di\ ell in pCrice ; 

 D;i Tiiee the' Aliuiglity's clory res". 

 And all the world in 'J h.e he bie^t. 



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