an Heroick Poem.
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32.
Wild Fear! Which has the Indian worship made,
Where each unletter'd Priest the Godhead draws
In such a form, as makes himself afraid;
Disguising Mercy's shape in Teeth and Claws.
Wild Fear! Which has the Indian worship made,
Where each unletter'd Priest the Godhead draws
In such a form, as makes himself afraid;
Disguising Mercy's shape in Teeth and Claws.
33.
This false Guide, Fear, which does thy Reason sway,
And turns thy valiant virtue to despair,
Has brought thee here, to offer, and to pray;
But Temples were not built for Cowards pray'r.
This false Guide, Fear, which does thy Reason sway,
And turns thy valiant virtue to despair,
Has brought thee here, to offer, and to pray;
But Temples were not built for Cowards pray'r.
34.
For when by Fear thy noble Reason's led
(Reason, not Shape gives us so great degree
Above our Subjects, Beasts) then Beasts may plead
A right in Temples helps as well as we.
For when by Fear thy noble Reason's led
(Reason, not Shape gives us so great degree
Above our Subjects, Beasts) then Beasts may plead
A right in Temples helps as well as we.
35.
And here, with absent Reason thou dost weep
To beg success in love; that Rhodalind
May lose, what she as much does beg to keep,
And may at least an equal audience find.
And here, with absent Reason thou dost weep
To beg success in love; that Rhodalind
May lose, what she as much does beg to keep,
And may at least an equal audience find.
36.
Mark Birtha, this unrighteous war of prayer!
Like wrangling States, you ask a Monarch's aid,
When you are weak, that you may better dare
Lay claim, to what your passion would invade.
Mark Birtha, this unrighteous war of prayer!
Like wrangling States, you ask a Monarch's aid,
When you are weak, that you may better dare
Lay claim, to what your passion would invade.
37.
Long has th'ambitious World rudely preferr'd
Their quarrels, which they call their pray'rs, to Heav'n;
And thought that Heav'n would like themselves have err'd,
Depriving some, of what's to others giv'n.
Long has th'ambitious World rudely preferr'd
Their quarrels, which they call their pray'rs, to Heav'n;
And thought that Heav'n would like themselves have err'd,
Depriving some, of what's to others giv'n.
38.
Thence Modern Faith becomes so weak and blind,
Thinks Heav'n in ruling other Worlds employ'd,
And is not mindfull of our abject Kind,
Because all Sutes are not by all enjoy'd.
Thence Modern Faith becomes so weak and blind,
Thinks Heav'n in ruling other Worlds employ'd,
And is not mindfull of our abject Kind,
Because all Sutes are not by all enjoy'd.
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