110 REDEMPTION.
Puts on her robe of joyous green, and sets
Her emerald signet, to the seal of God's
Redeeming love; emblem of mercy 'and peace,
Signet, which, once, Urim and Thummim graced,
And after, gleam'd athwart the bow, which he
Of Patmos, saw around the heav'nly throne,
Sure type of reconciliation, proof,
How dear to God are his predestined saints.
Nor doth Gallia refuse. From Pyrenees
To Alps, from Rhine to rolling seas, spacious
Her rich domain extends, predestined thence
With Clovis and Clotild, to deck her arms
By victories of grace, until, when free
Enlaved in healing streams from Mercy's side,
She rose exalted to th' immortal name
Defender of the Faith; name, deeply grav'n
On her front, and borne where e'er her eagles
Flaunt the breeze, or sail cerulean seas.
So all of Celtic race and name, destroy
Their idols, and, unalterably firm,
Compaction hold with Him, whose genial reign
From rising to the setting orb of day,
Wide as the earth's expanse, coeval spreads,
And with the clean Oblation, long foretold
By Malachias, constant him adore.
Next after these, homage of peacefulness
The warlike sons and blue eyed maids defer
Of wild Illyricum; whilst Rhaetia,
Dacia, Thrace, and utmost lands, wide spread, wash'd
By (Enus, Danube, Dravus and the Save,
Awhile forget their fierceness, and succumb
To the prevailing force of heav'nly grace ; *-'*
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