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Dazzling the Eyes of all that did pretend,To fierce Contention gave a Prosperous end.Still as you rise, the State exalted too,Finds no Distemper, while 'tis chang'd by you;Chang'd like the Worlds great Scene, when without noiseThe Rising Sun Night's Vulgar Lights destroys.Had you some Ages past this Race of GloryRun, with amazement we should read the Story:But living Vertue (all Atchievements past)Meets Envy still, to grapple with at last.This Cæsar found, and that ungrateful Age,Which losing him, fell back to Blood and Rage.Mistaken Brutus thought to break the Yoke;But cut the Bond of Union with that stroke.That Sun once Set, a thousand meaner StarsGave a Dim light to Violence and Wars:

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