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ode on the departed rency bill

(arch, 1789)

daughter of chaos&039; dotg years,

nurse of ten thoand hopes and fears,

whether thy airy, substantial shade

(the rights of sepulture now duly paid)

spread abroad its hideo for

on the roarg civil stor,

deafeng d and warrg ra

factions wild with factions wa;

or under-ground, deep-sunk, profound,

aong the deons of the earth,

with groans that ake the ountas shake,

thou ourn thy ill-starr&039;d, blighted birth;

or the uncreated void,

where seeds of future beg fight,

with lessen&039;d step thou wander wide,

to greet thy other—ancient night

and as each jarrg, onster-ass is past,

fond rellect what once thou wast:

anner due, beneath this sacred oak,

hear, spirit, hear! thy presence i voke!

by a onarch&039;s heaven-struck fate,

by a disunited state,

by a nero prce&039;s wrongs

by a senate&039;s strife of tongues,

by a preier&039;s sullen pride,

lourg on the changg tide;

by dread thurlow&039;s powers to awe

rhetoric, bsphey and w;

by the turbulent ocean—

a nation&039;s otion,

by the harlot-caresses

of borough addresses,

by days few and evil,

(thy portion, poor devil!)

by power, wealth, and show,

(the gods by n adored,)

by naless poverty,

(their hell abhorred,)

by all they hope, by all they fear,

hear! and appear!

stare not on , thou ghastly power!

nor, gri with chaed defiance, lour:

no babel-structure would i build

where, order exil&039;d fro his native sway,

nfion ay the rent-sceptre wield,

while all would rule and none obey:

go, to the world of an rete

the story of thy sad, eventful fate;

and call presuptuo hope to hear

and bid hi check his bld career;

and tell the re-pr