. Poems: containing The retrospect, odes, elegies, sonnets, &c. he lies. K [ 130 ] And, sometimes, when your lips repeat the deeds Your forefathers achievd,Of me the meanest think, not wholly mean: Let Mattathias name Full-fill your souls with fire, Recal that hour to view When this indignant handDrenchd deep my dagger in apostate blood. Even at the altars foot The tyrant chief I stabbd, I hurld the altar down. Nor then, in sacred sloth the sabbath fell we unrevengd. We servd our God in fight. We sacrificd his foes, We prayd amid the war. Then through these limbs burnt high Indign
. Poems: containing The retrospect, odes, elegies, sonnets, &c. he lies. K [ 130 ] And, sometimes, when your lips repeat the deeds Your forefathers achievd,Of me the meanest think, not wholly mean: Let Mattathias name Full-fill your souls with fire, Recal that hour to view When this indignant handDrenchd deep my dagger in apostate blood. Even at the altars foot The tyrant chief I stabbd, I hurld the altar down. Nor then, in sacred sloth the sabbath fell we unrevengd. We servd our God in fight. We sacrificd his foes, We prayd amid the war. Then through these limbs burnt high Indignant valours flame; Then glowd the lamp of pale and wavering as the dews of death. Slow quench its fading light. God of my fathers, thou hast seen my life Worn in defence of thee;Thou hast beheld me firm in dangers face, Maintain thy holy cause. [ 131 ] Amid embattled hosts Defend thy mystic rites. Now to the unknown world, Unchilld by fear, I sink;And whilst my chilly limbs grow faint,Whilst Deaths dull mists bedim my eye, Hope lifts my soul to Proposals for publishing by Subscription, JOAN of ARC, AN EPIC POEM,By ROBERT SOUTHEY, Of Balliol College, Oxford. To be handsomely printed in One Volume Quarto, price One Guinea, to be paidon delivery. Subscriptions will be received by Mr. C. Billy, Poultry, London;by the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and Bath.
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