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WINDSOR-FOREST.
Round broken Columns clasping Ivy twin'd,
O'er heaps of ruin stalk'd the stately hind;
The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires,
And wolves with howling fill the sacred Quires.
Aw'd by his Nobles, by his Common curst,
Th'oppressor rul'd tyrannic where he durst;
Stretch'd o'er the Poor, and Church, his iron rod,
And treats alike his Vassals and his God:
Whom ev'n the Saxon spar'd, and bloody Dane,
The wanton victims of his sport remain.
But see the man who spacious regions gave
A Waste for beasts,: himself deny'd a grave!
Stretch'd on the lawn his [1]second hope survey,
At once the chaser and at once the prey.
O'er heaps of ruin stalk'd the stately hind;
The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires,
And wolves with howling fill the sacred Quires.
Aw'd by his Nobles, by his Common curst,
Th'oppressor rul'd tyrannic where he durst;
Stretch'd o'er the Poor, and Church, his iron rod,
And treats alike his Vassals and his God:
Whom ev'n the Saxon spar'd, and bloody Dane,
The wanton victims of his sport remain.
But see the man who spacious regions gave
A Waste for beasts,: himself deny'd a grave!
Stretch'd on the lawn his [1]second hope survey,
At once the chaser and at once the prey.
- ↑ Richard, second son of William the Conqueror.
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