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That Men, whose native Eyes are blind, or out,
May by more admirable Art, be brought
85 To see with empty Holes as well and plain,
As if their Eyes had been put in again.
This great Man, therefore, having fix'd his Sight
T' observe the bloody formidable Fight,
Consider'd carefully, and then cry'd out,
90 'Tis true, the Battle's desperately fought;
The gallant Subvolvans begin to rally,
And from their Trenches valiantly sally,
To fall upon the stubborn Enemy,
Who fearfully begin to rout and fly.
95 These paltry domineering Privolvans
Have, every Summer season their Campains;
And muster, like the military Sons
Of Raw-head, and victorious Bloody-bones,
As great and numerous as Soland-geese
100 I' th' Summer-Islands of the Orcades,[1]
Couragiously to make a dreadful Stand,
And boldly face their Neighbour's Hand to Hand.
May by more admirable Art, be brought
85 To see with empty Holes as well and plain,
As if their Eyes had been put in again.
This great Man, therefore, having fix'd his Sight
T' observe the bloody formidable Fight,
Consider'd carefully, and then cry'd out,
90 'Tis true, the Battle's desperately fought;
The gallant Subvolvans begin to rally,
And from their Trenches valiantly sally,
To fall upon the stubborn Enemy,
Who fearfully begin to rout and fly.
95 These paltry domineering Privolvans
Have, every Summer season their Campains;
And muster, like the military Sons
Of Raw-head, and victorious Bloody-bones,
As great and numerous as Soland-geese
100 I' th' Summer-Islands of the Orcades,[1]
Couragiously to make a dreadful Stand,
And boldly face their Neighbour's Hand to Hand.
- ↑ 100. I' th' Summer-Islands of the Orcades.] It may seem odd, that Butler should term the Orcades Summer-Islands; but it is only a figurative and poetic way of saying in the Orcades in the Summer-season—at which Time they are haunted by infinite Numbers of all kinds of Water-fowl.
