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See heav'n its sparkling portals wide display,
And break upon thee in a flood of day.
No more the rising Sun fhall gild the morn,
Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her filver horn;
But loft, diffolv'd in thy fuperior rays,
One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze
O'erflow thy courts: the Light himself fhall fhine
Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine!

The feas shall wafte, the skies in smoke decay, 105
Rocks fall to duft, and mountains melt away;
But fix'd his word, his faving pow'r remains ;
Thy realm for ever lafts, thy own MESSIAH reigns!

IMITATIONS.

The reader needs only to turn to the paffages of Isaiah, here cited.

w Ch. lx. 19, 20.

Ch. li. 6. and Ch. liv. 10,

WINDSOR-FOREST.

To the Right Honourable

GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN.

Non injuffa cano: Te noftræ, Vare, myricæ,
Te Nemus omne canet; nec Phœbo gratior ulla eft,
Quam fibi quæ Vari præfcripfit pagina nomen.

VOL. I.

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VIRG.

Plate II.

Vol.1. facing p.51.

My humble Muse, in unambitious Strains Paints the green Forefts & the flowry Plains.

Windsor Forest

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