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Recitativo.
Let foreign Climes the Vine and Orange boast,
While Wastes of War deform the teeming Coast;
Britannia, distant from each hostile Sound,
Enjoys a Pipe, with Ease and Freedom crown'd:
E'en restless Faction finds itself most free,
Or if a Slave, a Slave to Liberty.
Let foreign Climes the Vine and Orange boast,
While Wastes of War deform the teeming Coast;
Britannia, distant from each hostile Sound,
Enjoys a Pipe, with Ease and Freedom crown'd:
E'en restless Faction finds itself most free,
Or if a Slave, a Slave to Liberty.
AIR.
Smiling Years that gayly run,
Round the Zodiac with the Sun,
Tell, if ever you have seen
Realms so quiet and serene.
British Sons no longer now
Hurl the Bar, or twang the Bow,
Nor of Crimson Combat think,
But securely smoke and drink.
Smiling Years that gayly run,
Round the Zodiac with the Sun,
Tell, if ever you have seen
Realms so quiet and serene.
British Sons no longer now
Hurl the Bar, or twang the Bow,
Nor of Crimson Combat think,
But securely smoke and drink.
CHO-
