And therefore glows

With gen'rous passions, and expends
Her wealth and zeal

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A new fund for Greenwich Hospital, recommended from the throne.

Receives our wounded and our old;

High domes ascend!

Stretch'd arches bend;

Proud columns swell! wide gates unfold!

Here, soft-reclin'd,

From wave from wind,

XXXVII.

And Fortune's tempest, safe ashore,

To cheat their care,

Of former war

They talk the pleasing shadows o'er.

In lengthen'd tales

Our fleet prevails;

XXXVIII.

In tales, the lenitives of age!

And o'er the bowl

They fire the soul

Of list'ning youth to martial rage.

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Wrapt in a wat❜ry windingsheet

Who bought with blood

Your country's good,

Your country's full-blown glory greet.*

What pow'rful charm

Can death disarm?

XLII.

Your long, your iron slumbers break:

By Jove, by Fame,

By George's name,

Awake! awake! awake!

Written soon after K. George I,'s accession.

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As Carolina's virtues please,

Or suns invite

The ravish'd sight,

The British flag shall sweep the seas.

Peculiar both!

Our soil's strong growth,

XLV.

And our bold natives' hardy mind;

Sure Heav'n bespoke

Our hearts and oak,

To give a master to mankind.

That noblest birth

Of teeming earth,

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XLVI.

Of forest fair that daughter proud,

To foreign coasts

Our grandeur boasts,

And Britain's pleasure speaks aloud:

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XLVII.

The fates of kingdoms and of kings;

And as she frowns,

Or smiles, on crowns,

A night or day of glory springs.

Thus Ocean swells

The streams and rills

XLIX.

And to their borders lifts them high,

Or else withdraws

The mighty cause,

And leaves their famish'd channels dry.

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