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 NEGLECTED SCOTLAND hews her awful Brow,

Not always quite o near to Heaven as now.

Circled with dreadful Clifts and Barb'rous Shores,

Where the trong Surff with high impetuous Roars,

Invades the Rocks, and thee their Rage didain,

And with redoubling Noie they'r hurry'd home again;

The hollow Caverns Mutual Roars return,

And Baffled Neptune raging makes the Ocean burn.

The furious Elements in vain contend,

Unmov'd the mighty natural Breat-works tand.

Their awful Hights in threatning Grandeur hine,

Emblems of mightier Hearts of Stone within.

Th' Intructing Rocks, Invincible and Strong,

Decribe the Race that to thee Rocks belong,

And bid the quick retreating Waves declare,

And warn the World againt a Northern War.

Tell them the Hopes of Conquet mut be vain;

When Hands of Steel hall Rocks of Flint maintain.

Thee are th' eternal Bounds of Providence,

The Oceans Bridle, and the Lands Defence.

The Warts and Wrinkles plac'd on Natures Brow

That her Maternal Care and Conduct how.

The meanet parts of Nature have their Ue,

And ome to Terror, ome to Strength conduce:

Nor is their Ornament at all the les;

For Beauty's bet decrib'd by Uefulnes.