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JOAN OF ARC.
Episcopal, proclaims approaching day
Of visitation, or Churchwardens meet
To save the wretched many from the gripe 530
Of eager Poverty, or mid thy halls
Of London, mighty Mayor! rich Aldermen
Of coming-feast, hold converse.
Otherwhere,
For tho' allied in nature as in blood,
They hold divided sway, his brother lifts 535
His spungy sceptre. In the noble domes
Of Princes, and state-wearied Ministers,
Maddening he reigns; and when the affrighted mind
Casts o'er a long career of guilt and blood
Its eye reluctant, then his aid is sought 540
To lull the worm of Conscience to repose.
He too the halls of country Squires frequents,
But chiefly loves the learned gloom that shades
Thy offspring Rhadycina! and thy walls,
Granta! Nightly libations there to him 545
Profuse are pour'd, till from the dizzy brain
Of visitation, or Churchwardens meet
To save the wretched many from the gripe 530
Of eager Poverty, or mid thy halls
Of London, mighty Mayor! rich Aldermen
Of coming-feast, hold converse.
Otherwhere,
For tho' allied in nature as in blood,
They hold divided sway, his brother lifts 535
His spungy sceptre. In the noble domes
Of Princes, and state-wearied Ministers,
Maddening he reigns; and when the affrighted mind
Casts o'er a long career of guilt and blood
Its eye reluctant, then his aid is sought 540
To lull the worm of Conscience to repose.
He too the halls of country Squires frequents,
But chiefly loves the learned gloom that shades
Thy offspring Rhadycina! and thy walls,
Granta! Nightly libations there to him 545
Profuse are pour'd, till from the dizzy brain
Triangles,
