See heav'n its sparkling portals wide display,
And break upon thee in a flood of day.

No more the rifing w Sun shall gild the morn,

Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her filver horn;

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But loft, diffolv'd in thy superior rays,

One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze

O'erflow thy courts: the Light himself stall shine
Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine!
The x feas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, 105
Rocks fall to duft, and mountains melt away;
But fix'd his word, his saving pow'r remains;

Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns!

IMITATIONS.

The reader needs only to turn to the passages of Ifaiah, here cited.

w Ch. lx. 19, 20. * Ch. li. 6. and Ch. liv. 10,

WINDSOR-FOREST.

To the Right Honourable

GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN.

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

VIRG.

VOL. I.

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Plate II.

Vol.I. facing p.31.

My humble Muse, in unambitious Strains Paints the green Forefts & the flow'ry Plains.

Windsor Forest