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Bat peaceful was the night,
Wherein the Prince of light
His reign of peace upon the earth began :
The winds with wonder whift;
Smoothly the waters kift,
Whifp'ring new joys to the mild ocean,
Who now hath quite forgot to rave,
While birds of calm fit brooding on the charmed wave.
The ftars with deep amaze
Stand fix'd in ftedfaft gaze,
Bending one way their precious influence,
And will not take their flight,
For all the morning light,
Or Lucifer that often warn'd them thence;
But in their glimmering orbs did glow,
Until their Lord himfelf befpake, and bid them go.
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And though the fhady gloom
Had given day her room,
The fun himfelf withheld his wonted fpeed,
And hid his head for {ha me,
As his inferior flame
The new enlighten'd world no more fhould need;
He faw a greater fun appear
Than his bright throne, or burning axletree could
bear.
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The fhepherds on the lawn,.
Or ere the point of dawn,