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With that twice batter'd God of Talefline;
And mooned Alhtaroth,
Heav'n's queen and mother both,
Now fits not girt with tapers holy lhinej
The Lybic Hammon fhrinks his horn,
In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thammuz
mourn.
And fullen Molocli fled,
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Hath left in fhadows dread
His burning idol all of blackeft hue;
In vain with cymbals ring
They call the grifly king,
In difmal dance about the furnace blue;
The brutiih gods of Nile as fall,
Ifis and Orus, and the dog Anubis hafte.
Nor is Ofiris feen
24.
In Memphian grove or green,
Trampling the unfhowr'd grafs with lowings loud:
Nor can he be at reft
Within his facred cheft,
Nought but profoundeft Hell can be his ihroud;
In vain with timbrel'd anthems dark
The fable-ftoled forcerers bear his worfhipt ark.
He feels from Juda's land
25.
The dreaded infant's hand,
The rays of Bethlehem blind his dufky eyn
Nor all the gods befide,
Longer dare abide,
Not Typhon huge ending in fnaky twine :