mans, may convert our territory into a waste like Judea, and our capital into ruins like Jerusalem. For "that effeminacy, folly, lust, There is a time, and justice marks the date, Is punish'd, and down comes the thunderbolt." The word once giv'n,' "and mutiny soon roars In all her gates, and shakes her distant shores ; The standards of all nations are unfurl'd, She has one foe, and that one foe, the world. And if He doom that people with a frown, And mark them with the seal of wrath, press'd down Obduracy takes place; callous and tough The reprobated race grows judgment-proof; Earth shakes beneath them, and heaven roars above, But nothing scares them from the course they love; To the lascivious pipe and wanton song, That charm down fear, they frolic it along, With mad rapidity and unconcern, Down to the gulf from which is no return. But all they trust in withers, as it must, Slips the slave's collar on, and snaps the lock.” COWPER FINIS. |