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 regard his upertitious mercy as an object of merriment and contempt. And yet in pite of that inenibility with which the practice of oppreion, and the habits of peculative cruelty, have incaed our feelings, till are we affected by the ufferings of other animals; and from their ditres are drawn the finet images of orrow. Would the poet paint the deep depair of the maid, from whoe ide the ruthles hand of death hath natched udden the lord of her affections, the love of