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THE WAT'RY GOD.

THE wat'ry God, great Neptune lay,
In dalliance ſoft and am'rous play,
On Amphitrite's ſoft breaſt;
When uproar rear'd its horrid head,
The Tritons ſhrunk, the Nereiads fled,
And all their fears confeſt.

Loud thunder ſhook the vaſt domain,
The liquid world was wrapt in flame,
The God amazed ſpoke!
Ye winds go forth and make it known,
Who dares to ſhake my coral throne,
And fill my realm with ſmoke?

The winds obſequious at his word,
Sprung ſtrongly up to obey their Lord,
And ſaw two fleets a-weigh;
One victorious-Hawke, was thine,
The other Conflans wretched line,
In terror and diſmay.

Appall'd they view Breitannia's Sons.
Deal Death and Slaughter from their guns,
And ſtrike the fatal blow;
Which caus'd ill-fated Gallic ſlaves,
To find a tomb in briney waves,
And ſink to ſhades below;