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In our late fight, when Cannons did diffuse(Preventing Posts) the Terror and the News;Our Neighbours then did Tremble at the roar:But our Conjunction makes them tremble more.Your never failing Sword made War to cease;And now you heal us with the Arts of Peace:Our minds with Bounty, and with Awe Engage;Invite Affection, and restrain our Rage.Less Pleasure take brave Minds in Battels won,Than in restoring such as are undone:Tygers have Courage, and the Rugged Bear;But Man alone can when he Conquers, spare.To Pardon willing, and to punish loth:You strike with one Hand, but you heal with both:Lifting up all that Prostrate lye, you grieveYou cannot make the Dead again to Live.When Fate or Error had our Rage misled,And o're these Nations such Confusion spread:

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