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IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (1), by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Portentous change when history can appear
Last Line: The sacred limits of humanity.
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians


PORTENTOUS change when History can appear
As the cool Advocate of foul device;
Reckless audacity extol, and jeer
At consciences perplexed with scruples nice!
They who bewail not, must abhor, the sneer
Born of Conceit, Power's blind Idolater;
Or haply sprung from vaunting Cowardice
Betrayed by mockery of holy fear.
Hath it not long been said the wrath of Man
Works not the righteousness of God? Oh bend,
Bend, ye Perverse! to judgments from on High,
Laws that lay under Heaven's perpetual ban
All principles of action that transcend
The sacred limits of humanity.





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