The Works of Mark Akinside Md in Verse And Prose With His Life a Facsimile
The Works of Mark Akinside Md in Verse And Prose With His Life a Facsimile
Akenside Mark
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109 Can Fancy's feeble springs the force of Truth supply ? XII. But come : 'tis time : strong Destiny impends To shut thee from the joys thou hast betray 'd ; ' With princes fill'd, the solemn fane ascends. By Infamy, the mindful demon, sway'd. There vengeful vows for guardian laws effaced. From nations fetter'd, and from towns laid waste. For ever through the spacious courts resound : Tliere long posterity's united groan And the sad charge of horrors not their own, 1 1 9 Assail the giant chief...s, and press them to the ground. XIII. In sight old Time, imperious judge, awaits : Above revenge, or fear, or pity, just. He urgeth onward to those guilty gates The Great, * the Sage, the Happy, and August. And still he asks them of the hidden plan Whence every treaty, every war began. Evolves their secrets and their guilt proclaims : And still his hands despoil them on the road Of each vain wreath by lying bards bestow'd, 129 And crush their tiophies huge, and rase their sculp- tured names. XIV.
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