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And monarchs | | tremble | 7 in their | capitals, |

| 7 The oak leviathans, | 7whose | huge | ribs 7 make 7

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7 Their clay cre | ator | 7 the vain | title | take, 7 Of | lord of thee, 7 | 7 and | arbiter of | war! 7 | These are thy toys, 7 | | and as the | snowy | flake, 71

They melt into thy | yeast of waves, 7 | 7 which

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7A | like the Ar | mada's | pride, 7 | or | spoils of | Trafalgar. 7 || |

7 Thy | shores are | empires, | | chang'd in | all 7 save 7 thee, 7 |

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7 Assyria, | | Greece, 7 | | Rome, 7 | | Carthage, what are | they? 7 |

7 Thy | waters | wasted them | | while they were free,

| 7 And | many a | tyrant | since: 7 | | 7 their | shores 7 obey 7 |

7 The stranger, | slave, 77 or savage; | 7 their de cay 7 |

7 Has dried up | realms 77 to | deserts, | | not | so 7 thou, 7 ||

Un changeable, | | save to thy | wild | waves |

play:

Time 7 writes 7 | no 7 | wrinkle | 7 on thine 7 } azure brow, 7 |

[Such as creation's | dawn 7 | 7 be | held, 7 | | thou 7 | rol'est | now. 7 [

Thou 7 glorious | mirror, | where the Almighty's form 71

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Glasses itself in | tempests; | 7 in all time, 7 | Calm 77 or con | vuls'd, 7 | | 7 in | breeze, 7|7 or | gale, 7 | 7 or | storm, 7 |

| Icing the | pole, 7 | or in the | torrid | clime 7 | Dark | heaving; | | boundless, | | endless, | | 7 and sublime. 7| |

7 The | image of E | ternity! | | 7 the | throne 7 | 7 Of the Invisible; | | even from out thy [ slime 7

The monsters of the

| each 7 | zone 7 |

deep 7 | 7 are | made: 7 |

70 | beys thee; | | thou 7 | goest | forth, 7 | dread, 7 fathomless, | 7 a | lone. 7 | ││

And I have | lov'd thee | Ocean! | 7 and my | joy 7 |

7 Of | youthful | sports 7 | was on thy | breast 7 | 7

to be

Borne, | 7 like thy | bubbles, onward: | 7 from a |

boy 7 |

7 I wanton'd with thy | breakers; they to | me 7 |

Were a delight; 7 | | and if the freshening | sea

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Made them a terror, | | 7 'twas a | pleasing | fear,

7 For I was 7 as it were, 77 a child of thee,

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And trusted to thy | billows | | far and | near, | * And | laid my | hand 77 upon thy | mane, 7 | 7 as I do 7 | here. 7 | | |

ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE BEFORE KING AGRIPPA.

ACTS XXXVI. 1.

Then Agrippa | said unto | Paul, 7 | | Thou art permitted to speak for thy | self. 7| | | Then 7 | Paul 7 | stretched forth the | hand, 7 | 7 and | answered | 7 for him | self. 7 | | |

7 I think myself | happy, | | King A | grippa, | 7 because I shall | answer for my | self 7 | this 7 | day 77 before 7 | thee,

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touching | all the | things 77 where | of 7 | 7 I am accused 7 | 7 of the Jews: 7 | | wherefore | 7 I be | seech thee | 7 | to hear me patiently. | | |7 My | manner of | life 77 from my | youth, 7 | | which was at the first 77 among mine | own 7 | nation | 7 at Je | rusalem, | know 7 | all the | Jews; 7| |7 which knew me | 7 from the beginning, | if they would | testify; | 7 that | after the most | straitest | sect 7 | of our religion | 7H| lived a | Pharisee. | | | 7 And now 7 7 1 | stand 7 | 7 and am | judged 7 | I 7 for the hope of the promise made of | God | 7 unto our fathers: 7 unto | which 7 | promise

| 7 our twelve 7 | tribes, 7 | instantly | serving | God 7 | day and | night, 7 | hope to 7 For | which 7 | hope's 7 | sake, 7 |

come. 7 | PI King A | grip

pa, | | I am ac | cused 7 | 7 of the | Jews. 7 | | | Why should it be | thought 7|7 a thing in | credible | 7 with | you, 7 | 7 that | God 7 | 7 should 7 | raise the dead? 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 I | verily | thought with my self, 77 that I ought to 7 do | many things contrary 7 to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 7 Which | thing 7 | 7 I | also | did 7 | 7 in Jerusalem: | 7 and | many of the saints 7 | 7 did I | shut up in | prison, | | having re | ceived authority | 7 from the | chief 7 | priests ; 7 | 7 and when they were | put to | death, 7 | 71 | gave 7 | my 7 | voice 7 | 7a | gainst them. | | |7 And I | punished them | oft 7 | 7 in | every | synagogue, | 7 and compelled them | 7 to blaspheme; 77 and being exceedingly | mad against them, | 7 I persecuted them | even unto | strange 7 | cities.

Whereupon as I went to Da | mascus, | | 7 with authority, | 7 and com | mission | 7 from the | chief 7 | priests, 7 | 7 at | mid 7 | day, 7 | 0 | king, 7 | 71 | saw in the | way | 7 a | light from | heaven, 7 | 7a | bove the | brightness | 7 of the | sun, 7 | | shining round about 7 | me, 7 | 7 and | them which journeyed with me. | we were all 7 | fallen to the

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earth, 7 | 71 | heard a voice 7 speaking unto me, 7 and | saying | 7 in the | Hebrew | tongue, 7| | Saul, 7| | Saul, 7| why 7 | persecutest thou | me? 7 | | 7 it is | hard 7

for thee to kick a | gainst the | pricks. 7 | | 7 And I | said, 7 | Who 7 | art thou, | Lord? 7 | | |7 And he | said, 7 | 7 I am | Jesus, | | whom 7 thou 7 persecutest. | | | 7 But | rise 77 and stand upon thy | feet; 7|| 7 for | I have ap | peared unto thee | 7 for this 7 | purpose, | 7 to make thee a minister | 7 and a | witness | | both of these things 7 | which thou hast seen, 7 mg and of those 7 | things 77 in the | which 7 | 7 1 will appear unto thee, | |7 de | livering thee | 7 from the people, | 7 and from the | Gentiles, | 7 un1 to whom now I | send thee; 7 | 7 to | open their and to turn them | 7 from | darkness

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eyes, 7

7 to light, 7 | 7 and from the | power of | Satan 7 unto God; 7|| 7 that they may receive 7 7 forgiveness of sins, 7 7 and inheritance | 7a | mong | them which are | sanctified, | 7 by | faith 7 | 7 that is in | me. 7| | | Whereup | on, 7 | 07 | king Agrippa, | |I was not disobedient | 7 unto the heavenly | vision: | | 7 but | showed | first 77 unto them of Da | mascus, | | 7 and at Jerusalem, | 7 and through | out 7 | all the | coasts of Judea, 7 | 7 and | then 7|7 to the | Gentiles, that they should repent 7 | 7 and | turn to | God, 7 | 7 and | do 7 | works 7 | meet for re | pentance. 77 For these 7 | causes | 7 the | Jews 7 | caught me in the temple, | | 7 and | went a | bout 77 to kill me. | | | Having | therefore | 7 obtained 7 | help of | God, 7|7 I continue | "7 unto this 7 day, 7 | witnessing | both to | small

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