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But sparing Turks, as if with Rage possest,The Christians perish by themselves opprest:Cities and Provinces so dearly won,That the Victorious People are undone.What Angel shall descend to reconcileThe Christian States, and end their Guilty Toyl?A Prince more fit from Heav'n we cannot ask,Than Britain's King for such a Glorious task:His dreadful Navy, and his lovely Mind,Gives him the Fear and Favour of Mankind.His Warrant does the Christian Faith defend;On that relying all their Quarrels end.The Peace is sign'd, and Britain does obtain,What Rome had sought from her fierce Sons in vain.In Battels won Fortune a part doth claim,And Soldiers have their Portion in the Fame:In this successful Union we findOnly the Tryumph of a worthy Mind:

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