The Poetical Works of James Thomson, Vol. 2: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; With the Life of the Author, and an Essay on the Plan and Character of the Poem on the Seasons (Classic Reprint)

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W'ith sharp and sudden check th' astonish'd sons Of Violence confounds; firm as his cause His bolder heart in awful justice clad, His eyes efl'ulging a peculiar fire; And as he charges through the prostrate war, His keen arm teaches faithless men no more To dare the sacred yengeance of the just.

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