THE ENCHANTMENT DISSOLVed. To touch with a satiric wipe And so may smiling peace once more And then secure from all alarms Of thundering drums and glittering arms, And fumigation never cease; 2 May Newton with renew'd delights Olney, June 22, 1782. 287 W. C. THE ENCHANTMENT DISSOLVED. BLINDED in youth by Satan's arts, Our fancy forms a thousand schemes 2 Rev. J. Newton, late of Saint Mary's Woolnoth, London, but then of Olney. 288 THE ENCHANTMENT DISSOLVED. So in the desert's dreary waste, By magic power produced in haste Castles, and groves, and music sweet, But while he listens with surprise, At first we start and feel distress'd, But He whose mercy breaks the charm And bids us seek his face. Then we begin to live indeed, When from our sin and bondage freed By this beloved Friend; FINIS. C. Whittingham, College House, Chiswick. 1751 |