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"Thou thought'st, if once the publick storm were past,
"All thy remaining life should sun-shine be:
"Behold! the publick storm is spent at last,
"The sovereign's tost at sea no more,
"And thou, with all the noble company,
"Art got at last to shore.
"But, whilst thy fellow-voyagers I see
"All march'd up to possess the promis'd land,
"Thou still alone, alas! dost gaping stand
"Upon the naked beach, upon the barren sand!

"As a fair morning of the blessed spring,
"After a tedious stormy night,
"Such was the glorious entry of our king;
"Enriching moisture dropp'd on every thing;
"Plenty he sow'd below, and cast about him light!
"But then, alas! to thee alone
"One of old Gideon's miracles was shown;
"For every tree and every herb around
"With pearly dew was crown'd,
"And upon all the quicken'd ground
"The fruitful seed of heaven did brooding lie,
"And nothing but the Muse's fleece was dry.
"It did all other threats surpass,
" When God to his own people said
"(The men whom through long wanderings he had led)
"That he would give them ev'n a heaven of brass:
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$"They look'd up to that heaven in vain,
"That bounteous heaven, which God did not restrain
"Upon the most unjust to shine and rain.