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PASTORALS.
See heav'n its sparkling portals wide display,And break upon thee in a flood of day!No more the rising [1]Sun shall gild the morn,Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her silver horn,But lost, dissolv'd in thy superior rays,One Tyde of glory, one unclouded blazeO'erflow thy courts: The Light himself shall shineReveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine!The [2]seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay,Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away;But fix'd his word, his saving pow'r remains,Thy Realm for ever lasts, thy own Messiah reigns!
  1. ↑ Chap. 60. ꝟ. 19, 20.
  2. ↑ Chap. 51. ꝟ. 6. and Chap. 54. ꝟ. 10.

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