What tho' to heav'n thy guilty revels swell, wond Far brighter raptures cheer the captive's cells& Glad is the tale consenting tongues record; vo "Messiah reigns, high deeds proclaim the Lord. A "The deaf can hear, the blind receive the sight, "And wither'd Palsy springs with new delight;H "On Pain's pale cheek reviving roses bloom,

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His task is done, his holy cares are o'er!

Messiah reigns, believ'd, confess'd, ador'd,

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Then, tyrant, yield, thy fatal vow fulfil;

Rush, fell enchantress, glut thy vengeful will;

Exhaust th' inventive cruelty of hate,

And learn how Virtue triumphs o'er its fate.

Backward he looks with self-approving eye, TAK Before him smiles bright Immortality: 11 Forgiving, fearless, calm, he yields his breath, And mounts to Glory on the wings of Death.

Yes, if, in triumph thro' the realms of air, His form unchang'd no wheels of lightning bear; Not less august his martyr'd soul shall rise Again, Messiah's herald, to the skies.

Whence, oh, if, stooping from thy starry sphere, Thou deign'st one future thought in pity here,: J Pleas'd shalt thou view thy holy rite confess'd, Thy name rever'd, where glows the human breast, Thy Master's reign to age nor clime confin'dica The world his temple, and his race mankind. bu

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C. H. JOHNSON,

PARTHENON.

-Qualem te dicam bonam

Antehac fuisse, tales cum sint reliquiæ.

PHÆD.

AS in some drooping form and time-worn face

Oft lingers yet the shade of youthful grace;

So, Parthenon, thy beauty still appears
Amid the wreck of thy forgotten years.

Though rude barbarian mosques profane thy site,
And cells unveil'd now mingle with the light;
Though but one lonely pillar lives to tell

Where a long range of shapely columns fell;

And, half suspended now, thy ruin nods

O'er mouldering fragments of its prostrate Gods;

N. B. The lines marked with inverted commas were not recited.

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