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Envy with rancorous joy these accents heard , And dwells with triumph on the fatal word ; ( ' ) 10 Waging against Renown eternal wars , Thus she insults the merit she abhprs : * " How has the radiance of the mitre ceased !
Oblivion ' s poppy shades the prostrate priest ; In dark Servility's expanding cave 15 Forgotten prelates hail thee from the grave ; O Lucifer ! of prophecy the star . Rolling through Hebrew clouds thy radiant car ! Art thou too fallen as we ? Can Flattery's tide
Drown thy free spirit and thy Attic pride ? 20 Is this the man who spoke , in language strong , The praise of Liberty's Athenian song ? ( ) Blest are her notes , but curst the sordid things That priestcraft offers to the pride of Kings ; For never , never , shall fair Freedom ' s hand 25
Enrol one prelate in her sacred band !" Peace ! Envy , peace ! nor deem , with bigot rage , Long labours cancelled b y a hasty page ; Nor , if a word unweighed her lips escape , Paint injured Virtue in Corruption ' s shape ! 30 Shall slanderous Prejudice , with general blame , Plunge ranks unsifted in the gulph of Shame ?
If some be servile , shall we madly rave That every churchman is in soul a slave ? Abhorred idea ! fraught with basest guile ! 35 Turn to the splendid annals of our isle ! See mitred Langton lead jtr * e patriot v ^ n ^ ) And bear , O Liberty ! thy sacred pjar >! Though lust of vengeance regal power inflame To brand his virtue with Rebellion ' s name , 40
Still in the tented field , from fear exempt , No menace shakes him , and no offers tempt ; Till England , saved from tyrannous control . Owes her bright charter to his guardian soul . Let Freedom ' s &yp our later story search ! 45 Her modern chaiBpiorj issues from the church ; See Hoadjy ' s persevering zeal withdraw
The veil of bigotry from heavenly l ^ w ; With decent % r \ &h espaijnd , wjtfr reason scan God ' s gracious edict , arid the rights of paan I ' 50 To shield the dearest gift of Nature ' s band , Was thine , pure spirit ! ( ) and thy name shall stand
Engraved on Liberty ' s eternal rock , With ardent Sidney , with the milder £ » o $ ke , And guarded by tfte fylqse $ f glpry , s , hine 55 in manly Akenside'a irnmoital Jin $ . ( j But these examples rise from haJJ ^ owed eart ; h ; The church has models still of living wqr . th :
* See Isaiah , chap . xiv .
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Haytey ' s Elegy on the Ancient Greek Model . 619
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 619, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/19/
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