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JOAN OF ARC.
Making the drench'd earth, rank with human blood,
Scatter pollution on the winds of Heaven?
Oh! that the sepulchre had closed its jaws 695
On that foul Priest, that bad blood-guilty man,[1]
Who, trembling for the Church's ill-got wealth,
Bade Henry look on France, ere he had drawn
The desolating sword, and sent him forth
To slaughter! think that in this fatal war 700
Thousands and tens of thousands, by the sword
Cut off, and sent before the Eternal Judge,
With all their unrepented crimes upon them,
Cry out for vengeance! that the widow's groan,
Tho' here she groan unpitied or unheard, 705
Is heard in Heaven against us! o'er this land
That hills of human slain, unsepulchred,
Steam pestilence, and cloud the blessed sun!
The wrath of God is on us—God has call'd
Scatter pollution on the winds of Heaven?
Oh! that the sepulchre had closed its jaws 695
On that foul Priest, that bad blood-guilty man,[1]
Who, trembling for the Church's ill-got wealth,
Bade Henry look on France, ere he had drawn
The desolating sword, and sent him forth
To slaughter! think that in this fatal war 700
Thousands and tens of thousands, by the sword
Cut off, and sent before the Eternal Judge,
With all their unrepented crimes upon them,
Cry out for vengeance! that the widow's groan,
Tho' here she groan unpitied or unheard, 705
Is heard in Heaven against us! o'er this land
That hills of human slain, unsepulchred,
Steam pestilence, and cloud the blessed sun!
The wrath of God is on us—God has call'd
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- ↑ Line 696. The Parliament, when Henry V. demanded supply, entreated him to seize all the ecclesiastical revenues, and convert them to the use of the crown. The Clergy were alarmed, and Chichely, Archbishop of Canterbury, endeavoured to divert the blow, by giving occupation to the King, and by persuading him to undertake a war against France.Hume.
