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Identifier: birthtriumphoflo00burg (find matches)
Title: The birth and triumph of love. A poem
Year: 1796 (1790s)
Authors: Burges, James Bland, Sir, 1752-1824
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Publisher: London : Printed by C. Roworth, for T. Egerton (etc.)
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hall feek tamufe The enfeebled foul, and confident inflru^l* With Sophifms dark and falfe, from Hells deep caverns plucked. » All 54 THE BIRTH AND TRIUMPH OF LOVE. LIV. Ah lucklefs Man! condemned to coimtlefs woes, Ah! why infenfate wilt thou quit the joy, The tranquil pleafure, which from virtue flows, In dreams of fancied blifs thy mind temploy, Wliich idly flattering court but to deftroy? See—to another Love they Altars raife; And, while around conflifedly they toy, On tlie foul flame with maddening zeal they gaze, And with promifcuous voice the vile Impoflor praife. LV. And flrange fantaftic tricks that Boy fhall play,■ While to his rule the groveling herds fubmit. Beauty to bleared Deformity fhall pay A deference bafe and homage moft unfit; And to broad-flaring Folly, Senfe and Wit, Compelled by harfh injun6fion, fliall be fold. Well may Content the genial couch then quit, Whencharms and worth are trucked for fordid gold, And Youth is doomed to freeze in Ages bofom cold. But
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THE BIRTH AND TRIUMPH OF LOVE. 55 LVI. But fear not thou—Thy Empire fliall endure: And, tho the Impoftors arts may flill fucceed To extend his impious fway oer hearts impure, Be thine the tafk t infpire the virtuous deed, To warm the generous breaft to gain the meed And the rich trophy which, ere time was known,* For high dcfert the fovereign voice decreed. But chiefly Albions realm thy power lliall own, There tliy dominion plant, there firmly fix thy throne. LVII. Tis there, where Reafons torch fhall brightly flame, And Freedom Spread her genial radiance wide* To blefs her fons with happinefs and fame: Tis there thou fhalt in majefty refide, And oer the feeling breaft fupreme prefide. There, if Corruption rear her hateful head, From time to time, to check the envenomed tide, Propitious aid thy favouring hand fliall fhed, And oer thy loved domain thy cheering influence fpread. For 56 THE BIRTH AND TRIUMPH OF LOVE. LVIII. For this with care preferve the Hearts thy prize, Whofe conqii

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