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and seas the prince received. Go, injured hero! while propitious gales, Soft as thy consort's breath, inspire thy sails; Well may she trust her beauties on a flood, Where thy triumphant fleets so oft have rode! 620 Safe on thy breast reclined, her rest be deep, Rock'd like a Nereid by the waves asleep; While happiest dreams her fancy entertain, And to Elysian fields convert the main! Go, injured hero! while the shores of Tyre At thy approach so silent shall admire, Who on thy thunder still their thoughts employ, And greet thy landing with a trembling joy! On heroes thus the prophet's fate is thrown, Admired by every nation but their own; 630 Yet while our factious Jews his worth deny, Their aching conscience gives their tongue the lie. Even in the worst of men the noblest parts Confess him, and he triumphs in their hearts, Whom to his king the best respects commend Of subject, soldier, kinsman, prince, and friend; All sacred names of most divine esteem, And to perfection all sustain'd by him; Wise, just, and constant, courtly without art, Swift to discern and to reward desert; 640 No hour of his in fruitless ease destroy'd, But on the noblest subjects still employ'd: Whose steady soul ne'er learn'd to separate Between his monarch's interest and the state; But heaps those blessings on the royal head, Which he well knows must be on subjects shed. On what pretence could then the vulgar rage Against his worth and native rights engage? Religious fears their argument are made-- Religious fears his sacred rights invade! 650 Of future superstition they complain, And Jebusitic worship in his reign: With such alarms his foes the crowd deceive, With dangers fright, which not themselves believe. Since nothing can our sacred rites remove, Whate'er the faith of the successor prove: Our Jews their ark shall undisturb'd retain, At least while their religion is their gain, Who know by old experience Baal's commands Not only claim'd their conscience, but their lands; 660 They grudge God's tithes, how therefore shall they yield An idol full possession of the field? Grant such a prince enthroned, we must confess The people's sufferings than that monarch's less, Who must to hard conditions still be bound,
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