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II

Ancient and Modern ITALY compared: being the First

Part of LIBERTY, a Poem.

GREECE being the Second Part of LIBERTY, a Poem. 31

ROME: being the Third Part of LIBERTY, a Poem.

BRITAIN: being the Fourth Part of LIBERTY, a Poem.

The PROSPECT: being the Fifth Part of LIBERTY, a

Poem.

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BRITANNIA.

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PO E M.

-Et tantas audetis tollere moles?

Quos ego-fed motos præftat componere fluctus.
Poft mihi non fimili pœna commissa luetis.
Maturate fugam, regique hæc dicite veftro:

Non illi imperium pelagi, fævumque tridentem,
Sed mihi forte datum..

VIRG.

S on the fea-beat shore Britannia sat,

Of her degenerate fons the faded fame,

Deep in her anxious heart, revolving fad:
Bare was her throbbing bofom to the gale,

That hoarfe, and hollow, from the bleak furge blew;

Loofe flow'd her treffes; rent her azure robe.

Hung o'er the deep, from her majestic brow

She tore the laurel, and fhe tore the bay.

Nor ceas'd the copious grief to bathe her cheek;
Nor ceas'd her fobs to murmur to the main.

Peace discontented nigh, departing, stretch'd

Her dove-like wings. And War, tho' greatly rous'd, VOL. II.

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