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No earthly Cloud
Could his effulgent Brightness shroud:
Glory, and Majesty, and Pow'r,
March'd in a dreadful Pomp before;
Behind, a grim, and meagre Train,
Pining Sickness, frantic Pain,
Stalk'd wildly on! with all the dismal Band,
Which Heav'n in Anger sends to scourge a guilty Land.
Could his effulgent Brightness shroud:
Glory, and Majesty, and Pow'r,
March'd in a dreadful Pomp before;
Behind, a grim, and meagre Train,
Pining Sickness, frantic Pain,
Stalk'd wildly on! with all the dismal Band,
Which Heav'n in Anger sends to scourge a guilty Land.
II.
With Terror cloath'd, he downward flew,
And wither'd half the Nations with a View;
Thro' half the Nations of th' astonish'd Earth
He scatter'd War, and Plagues, and Dearth!
And when he spoke,
The everlasting Hills from their Foundations shook;
The trembling Mountains, by a lowly Nod,
With Rev'rence struck, confess'd the God:
With Terror cloath'd, he downward flew,
And wither'd half the Nations with a View;
Thro' half the Nations of th' astonish'd Earth
He scatter'd War, and Plagues, and Dearth!
And when he spoke,
The everlasting Hills from their Foundations shook;
The trembling Mountains, by a lowly Nod,
With Rev'rence struck, confess'd the God:
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