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Jacobite Songs 255<br />

Chose rather thus to Murder'd be,<br />

Than see their Rights Enslav'd.<br />

He strove for their Invaded State,<br />

From Brunswick's curst Arrival ;<br />

Who proves their Emblem of ill Fate,<br />

In Noll's and Will's Revival.<br />

Behold I touch the Mournful Lyre,<br />

Whose gentle Strings Impart,<br />

(As first my Grief did them inspire)<br />

Their Trembling to my Heart.<br />

My Muse, all wreath'd in baleful Yew,<br />

No Laurel Green shall wear ;<br />

Thus is England's falling Church to me,<br />

Whilst Whiggs the Triumph bear.<br />

Townshend and Wake that drew him in,<br />

His Errors to recall ;<br />

Now like malicious Serpents, grin,<br />

And Triumph in his Fall.<br />

Deceit may Townshend's Nature be ;<br />

'<br />

In Wake, 'tis Gain's Creation,<br />

'Cause, like the Crown, his Holy See,<br />

Is but an Usurpation.<br />

Tho' Paul in Fear did thus Re<strong>can</strong>t,<br />

Having his King deny'd ;<br />

Like Peter, he return'd the Saint,<br />

And an Apostle Dy'd.<br />

And tho' Abjuring Oaths he took,<br />

To our Usurping Tarter ;<br />

Like Saul the Cause he thus forsook,<br />

To be like Paul the Martyr.<br />

His Dying Words with Truth did Shine ;<br />

Himself, he did desire,<br />

Should be his Monumental Shrine,<br />

On every Church's Spire.<br />

From thence, tho' Dead, he'd still relate,<br />

For Faith his Life Surrender ;<br />

By Mercy of its Guardian State,<br />

And Merciful Defender.<br />

And if the Sun had chanc'd to taint,<br />

And chang'd him Black to view ;<br />

Still their dark Deeds he'd Represent,<br />

In Ecciesiastick Hue.

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