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That ' s but a ragged Hexameter , Sou they I it is not worth two-pence . Folly and waste it were to lash fchee with
critical scourges : Wiser and kinder to give thee a wellguarded chamber in Bedlam , Where thou may ' st write unmolested thy beautiful , " beautiful measure ;" For thou art mad ! thou art mad I
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SONNET On the Spanish Revolution . [ From f < Amarynthus , the Nympholet , and other Poems , " 12 mo . 1821 . ]
O , now may I depart in peace ! for , lo ! Spain , the priest-ridden and enslavM , hath riven Her chains asunder ; and no rage , no
flow Of blood , save what the despot , phrensy-driven , Wantonly shed . Did they not crush him ? No ; All with magnanimous mercy was
forgiven Tyrants , the hour is coming , sure , tho ' slow , When ye no more can outrage earth and heaven . As I would joy to see the assassin foiTd Bv his own gun ' s explosion , so do I
Joy , that the oppressors armies have recoii'd Back on themselves ; for so shall they rely On love , not fear , leaving the world o ' ertoii'd With war and chains , to peace and liberty .
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STO NE HENGE . Thousands of winters have thy massive blocks , Stonehenge , endured , and yet uprear'd remain , Objects of wonder on a dreary plain , Defying storms like billow-beaten rocks . Sacred was deem'd the circle they describe ,
Where Britons met in vacant awe to look At misletoe , cut with the golden hook , Of fancied charms , held by the Druid tribe . The roofless temple where in moral night , Terrific gloom of Bardic lore , was spilt The human victim ' s blood to cancel
guilt , And please some Deity with slaughter ' s sight . How blest to witness Revelation ' s day , Whose dawn the Pagan darkness chas'd away ! R . F . Kidderminster , Feb . 12 , 1821 .
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GLASTONBURY ABBEY . When Popery stood to England ' s state allied , In Superstition ' s forms religion lay ; Then , Glaston Abbey , was thy haughty day , Exhibiting the blaze of spiritual pride . With dazzling splendour of delusion shorn *
The consecrated rites within thy walls , Where cloisters , sculptur'd saints , and carved halls , With stately turrets , made vain greatness known . Thy broken arches , prostrate fragments , now
Bespeak a fallen sway , thy glory lost , Since civil power disown'd the monkish VOWy The senseless crucifix , and gaudy host : More worth the Reformation had display'd Were Popish relics all in ruins laid . It . F . Kidderminster , April 16 , 1821 .
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248 Poetry . ~~ Stonehenge . — -Gla $ tonbury Abbey .
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REMONSTRANCE After a Conversation with Lord John Russell , in which he had intimated some idea of giving up all Political pursuits .
[ From the Morning Chronicle . ] What ! thou , with thy genius , thy youth , and thy
flame—Thou ! born of a Russell , whose instinct to run The accustom'd career of thy sires is the same — - As the eagle ' s to soar with his eyes on the
sun—Whose nobility comes to thee > stamp'd with a seal , Far , far more ennobling than monarch e ' er set , — With the blood of thy race , offer ed up for the weal . Of a nation that swears by tfyat martyrdom yet .
Shalt thou be faint-hearted and turn from the strife , From the mighty arena , where all that is grand , And devoted , and pure , and adorning in Jife , Is for high-thoughted spirits like thine to command ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/56/
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