The Cotters Saturday Night
s bade eternal warfare wage
with amalek's ungracious progeny;
or how the royal bard did groaning lie
beh the stroke of heaven's avenging ire;
or job's pathetit, and wailing cry;
or rapt isaiah's wild, seraphic fire;
or other holy seers that tuhe sacred lyre.
perhaps the christian volume is the theme,
how guiltless blood fuilty man was shed;
how he, who bore in heaven the sed name,
had not oh whereon to y his head:
how his first followers and servants sped;
the precepts sage they wrote to many a nd:
how he, who lone in patmos banished,
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