Ode On The Departed Regen Bill
ode on the departed regency bill (march, 1789) daughter of chaos' doting years, nurse of ten thousand hopes and fears, whether thy airy, insubstantial shade (the rights of sepulture now duly paid) spread abroad its hideous form on the r civil storm, deafening din and warring rage fas wild with fas wage; or under-ground, deep-sunk, profound, among the demons of the earth, with groans that make the mountains shake, thou mourn thy ill-starr'd, blighted birth; or in the ued void, where seeds of future being fight, with lessen'd step thou wander wide, to greet thy mother—a night. and as each jarring, monster-mass is past, fond recollect what ohou wast: in manner due, beh this sacred oak, hear, spirit, hear! thy presence i invoke! by a monarch's heaven-struck fate, by a disuate, by a generous prince's wrongs. by a senate's strife of tongues, by a premier's sullen pride, l on the ging tide; by dread thurlow's powers to awe rhetoric, blasphemy and law; by the turbulent o— a nation's otion, by the harlot-caresses of bh addresses, by days few and evil, (thy portion, poor devil!) by power, wealth, and show, (the gods by men adored,) by nameless poverty, (their hell abhorred,) by all they hope, by all they fear, hear! and appear! stare not ohou ghastly power! nrim with ed defiance, lour: no babel-structure would i build where, order exil'd from his native sway, fusion may the regent-sceptre wield, while all would rule and none obey: go, to the world of mae the story of thy sad, eventful fate; and call presumptuous hope to hear and bid him check his blind career; ahe sore-prest sons of care, never, o despair! paint charles' speed on wings of fire, the object of his fond desire, beyond his boldest hopes, at hand: paint all the triumph of the portland band; hark how they lift the joy-elated voice! and who are these that equally rejoice? jews, gentiles, what a motley crew! the iron tears their flinty cheeks bedew; see how unfurled the part ensigns fly, and principal and i all the cry! and how their num'rous creditors rejoice; but just as hopes to warm enjoyment rise, cry valesce! and the vision flies. the pourtray a dark'ning twilight gloom, eclipsing sad a gay, rejoig morn, while proud ambition to th' uomb by gnashing, grim, despairing fiends is borne: paint ruin, in the shape of high d[undas] gaping with giddy terror o'er the brow; in vairuggles, the fates behind him press, and clam'rous hell yawns for her prey below: how fallen that, whose pride late scaled the skies! and this, like lucifer, no more to rise! again pronouhe powerful word; see day, triumphant from the night, restored. then know this truth, ye sons of men! (thus ends thy moral tale,) your darkest terrors may be vain, your brightest hopes may fail.