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<HEAD>A POEM ON THE CONVENTION A&s;&s;embled at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter, Jan.</HI> 22. 1688/9.</HEAD>
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<Q><L><HI>Ultima Cumaei venit jam Carminis Aetas,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Magnus ab integro &s;aeclorum na&s;citur Ordo,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Jam redit &amp; Virgo, redeunt Saturnia Regna,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Jam nova Progenies caelo demittitur alto</HI>&mdash;</L>
<L><HI>A&s;pice Venturo laetentur ut Omnia &s;aeclo.</HI></L>
<BIBL>Virg.</BIBL></Q>
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<P>Licen&s;ed, <HI>January</HI> 21. 1688/9.</P>
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<L>YOU <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Bards, who <HI>Britain</HI>'s Glory Wrote</L>
<L>As warmly as our <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Heroes Fought,</L>
<L>Be &s;till a&s;&s;i&s;ting to your Country's Fame,</L>
<L>And in my daring Song revive your Flame.</L>
<L>Now I behold our bright A&s;&s;embly plac't,</L>
<L>With Noble Birth and Nobler Virtues grac't,</L>
<L>Tran&s;ported with a Vi&s;ion Sublime,</L>
<L>My thoughts recall the Pride of Infant-Time;</L>
<L>I think how the Immortal Senate &s;ate,</L>
<L>In New-created Heavens Tran&s;cendent State,</L>
<L>The Stars yet wondring at each others Fires,</L>
<L>And all the Sons of Glory rank't in Quires.</L>
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<L>As various Streams from di&s;tant Regions fall,</L>
<L>And in the Deep their great <HI>Convention</HI> Call,</L>
<L>Tran&s;mitting thence &s;upplies to every Source,</L>
<L>And fail not to maintain their rowling Cour&s;e;</L>
<L>So from our bright A&s;&s;embly here combin'd,</L>
<L>Each Province do's new Life, new Vigour, find;</L>
<L>Remote&s;t Places are with Plenty Crown'd,</L>
<L>And in our &s;pacious I&s;le no Barren Spot is found.</L>
<L>Ju&s;tice as plenteous as our <HI>Thames</HI> &s;hall flow,</L>
<L>In Peace the Sailer Steer and Pea&s;ant Plow.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Ga&s;ping for Liberty we lately lay,</L>
<L>Our Laws, our very Con&s;ciences, a Prey,</L>
<L>To Savage Prie&s;ts and Arbitrary Sway.</L>
<L>While Vermine to the Palace did re&s;ort,</L>
<L>And <HI>Mu&s;hroom-Favourites</HI> profan'd our Court,</L>
<L>Who&s;e dark Cabal a Pregnant Mon&s;ter &s;eem'd,</L>
<L>And ev'ry Hour with <HI>Britain</HI>'s Ruine Teem'd.</L>
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<L>While thus upon De&s;tructions Brink we trod,</L>
<L>What Mortal Aid, or what De&s;cending God,</L>
<L>Di&s;pels our Fears? &mdash; Behold! the great <HI>NASSAW</HI></L>
<L>Shines forth, and makes the threatning Storm withdraw.</L>
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<L>Illu&s;trious Prince! Among the numerous Vows</L>
<L>Of Pious Hearts that your ju&s;t Cau&s;e E&s;pou&s;e,</L>
<L>Forgive a Zeal, that by no flatt'ry fir'd,</L>
<L>No Malice Arm'd, or Factious Rage in&s;pir'd,</L>
<L>In&s;tructs an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Mu&s;e this harmle&s;s way,</L>
<L>Her's and the Nation's Wi&s;hes to Convey.</L>
<L>Nor tho&s;e alone &s;he brings you, for no le&s;s</L>
<L>Than <HI>Europe</HI>'s Fate depends on your &s;ucce&s;s.</L>
<L>The <HI>Thames,</HI> the <HI>Ma&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Tagus</HI> and the <HI>Rhine</HI></L>
<L>(Who&s;e di&s;tant Streams their Common Intr'e&s;ts join,)</L>
<L>In &s;uppliant manner from your Arms Implore</L>
<L>That la&s;ting Peace you only can Re&s;tore.</L>
<L>Urge then your Fortune, On, brave Sir, Advance</L>
<L>Your Sword into the Heart of Trembling <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>And to their Flatter'd Monarch make it clear,</L>
<L>How ill his Fal&s;hood &s;erves to prop his Fear.</L>
<L>Then &s;hall the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> and the <HI>Belgick</HI> Fleet</L>
<L>No Rival in their Common Mi&s;tre&s;s meet,</L>
<L>But with United Force by Sea and Land,</L>
<L>The Trade and Empire of the World Command.</L>
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<L>The&s;e Benefits and greater, we believe,</L>
<L><HI>Europe</HI> &s;hall from your Conqu'ring Hand receive,</L>
<L>For, faithle&s;s <HI>France</HI> entirely to &s;ubdue,</L>
<L>Fate has re&s;erv'd for <HI>Britain</HI> and for you.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>Printed by <HI>Edw. Jones.</HI> MDCLXXXIX.</P>
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