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And ft M **^ dost HumBled the guUty people knelt , Leaving the gorgeous palaces , Where late in pom ^) they dwelt ; King , princes , mourn M the deep offence , And gave themselres to penitence .
Now that bis powerful voice , . He ^ venrtaughjf , had reached the sinner ' s neait , Might not the prophet well rejoice , An £ " blessing God , depart ? Or fervent join ? the hope , the prayer , « \ y&o knows if yet our God may spare ? No *—Hi * was not tlie soul
Of one who , humbled in the dust , Pleaded for guilty Israel , Yet own'd the sentence j ust— Heaven ' s gracious thoughts his anger move , And Jonah weeps that u God is lore . " # ¦ Sorrowing he goes to seek „
A shelter from the noon-tide heat , And up there sprang above his head A shade so cooling , sweet ; < c Jonah was glad" the record says , We hear not of the Giver ' s praise . Short was his joy—the plant
In one short nigh , !; a warm devourM , The prophet saw it droop and pine , And , sorrowing , ihisS'd fail jpourd , Yet gentle- still those accents fell , " In this thine anger dost thbtt well ?"
" Yes , lido well , even thus , Thus angry unto death , to pine : " " Then thoa had'st pity on the gourd , Which was no wort of thine *—Wbich iir a night has nouribhed , And in a night thou see'st is dead !
u And shall no pity rise For thousand and ten thousand souls That in the depth of ignorance No sense of right contrpuls ; And shall not God spare Nineveh , Where thrice ten thousand people be ?" Oh ! if there , be who wield Heaven's thunders o ' er tiieir brothers
head , Not , Jonah-like , c ; ommissiou * d high , With error compassed , O let them , wam'd hy . Him , beware , Noi- curse whom ' God perhaps may spare . And let their guarded souls Be to themselves severely true , Sorrowing pronounce condemning words ,
And let those wards fce ^ fcw ; . M Their chiefrst joy JthdE ^« MFeMHi ^ >» OVr love display'd aud eiu for ^ tien . r » v ¦ ' B . • Moses , Deut . ix . 18 .
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^ o Louis— < Le Desiri * Then thou wilt submit , O King !
Then thou wilt submit to he Hiat scourge of the world , a warlike . King ,. Deep charg'd with the blood of the Free ?
TheA thou , in thine age , must lake The sw 6 rd on the side of wrong , Impatient to think this Idle world Should dally with Peace so long . Now ahatne on the souls that roused Such wrath in a merciful breast * And gave thee thoughts which would ne ' er have-come , Had they left thee alone in thy rest \
And thou hast believed the word , That God can delight to see His image fair in the mind of man Effac ed by a thing like thee ?
And thou canst indeed believe . If the prayer he duly said And the mass-bell rung , —that the smile of Heaven ^ Shines bright on thy favoured / hea 4 ^?
Or ever the deed be done , , ; Oh ! ponder , for mercy * s sake ! Nor madly yet one comforting thought From a dying moment take ! Or ever the widow's sigh To the throne of God hath sped , Or the deep and solemn curae be gone ? From ihe warrior ' s lowly bed ;—
By all thou hast hopM orfear'd In Heaven pr Hell , oh pause 1 For God will fight in defence of the right , And not in oppression's cause * E . T % '
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Lines written in the Prison at , Calais . ( From Mr . Bowrino ' s €€ Details of his Arrest , Imprisonjneut and Liberation , * just published . )
Calais Prison , Oct . 8 , 1822 . I have inarched up and down this foul atjdde , And read its tales of misery : f tis a b * ok
? Since this poem was printed , we have seei ^ if In the Examiner newspaper , hut being lent to us as * an original , we pve it as nuch . Ed .
