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26 That may throw wide her friendly Tow’rs, And grant her Guests the Freedom of her Shores: Lest, blind to Fate, and ’s Decree, Should shut her Ports, and drive them to the Sea. Swift on the Steerage of his Wings he flies, And shoots the vast Expansion of the Skies. Arriv’d, th’ Almighty’s Orders he performs. Charm’d by the God, no more the Nation storms With jealous Rage; in chief the Queen inclin’d To Peace, and mild Benevolence of Mind.

Night involv’d in Cares lay, But rose impatient at the Dawn of Day, To view the Coast, the Country to explore, And learn if Men, or Beasts, possest the Shore, (For wide around the gloomy Wast extends) And bear the Tydings to his anxious Friends. Beneath a shelving Rock his Fleet dispos’d, With waving Woods and awful Shades inclos’d,