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419 Exultingly, in view of open day

And full assemblage of a barbarous Host;

Or to Andates, Female Power! who gave

(For so they fancied) glorious Victory.

—A few rude Monuments of mountain-stone

Survive; all else is swept away.—How bright

The appearances of things! From such, how changed

The existing worship; and, with those compared,

The Worshippers how innocent and blest!

So wide the difference, a willing mind,

At this affecting hour, might almost think

That Paradise, the lost abode of man,

Was raised again; and to a happy Few,

In its original beauty, here restored.

—Whence but from Thee, the true and only God,

And from the faith derived through Him who bled

Upon the Cross, this marvellous advance

Of good from evil; as if one extreme

Were left—the other gained.—O Ye, who come

To kneel devoutly in yon reverend Pile,

Called to such office by the peaceful sound

Of Sabbath bells; and Ye, who sleep in earth,