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4 Those charming Eyes that shine, to reconcile, To Harmony and Peace, our stubborn Isle: On brazen Memnon, Phœbus casts a Ray, And the tough Metal so salutes the Day.


 * The British Dame, fam’d for resistless Grace,

Contends not now, but for the second Place; Our Love suspended, we neglect the Fair For whom we burn’d, to gaze adoring here: So sang the Syrens, with enchanting Sound, Enticing all to listen and be drown’d, ’Till Orpheus ravish’d in a nobler Strain, They ceas’d to sing, or singing charm’d in vain.


 * This blest Alliance, Peterborough, may

Th’ indebted Nation bounteously repay; Thy Statues, for the Genius of our Land, With Palm adorn’d, on ev’ry Threshold stand.



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