Excerpt from The Crucifixion: A Poetic Essay Excite. - Ye fabled fongs adieu! Adieu Imagination, to the dazzled eye Shooting thy gorgeous phantoms! Hence, ye dreams Of fublunary glare, the gem of wealth, The plume of honour! To her awful lhrine Devotion wafts me, where the white-rob'd priell With heart-felt tranfport on the wing of prayer Entatic rifes, or with waving hand And all the decent elegance of eafe Mylterious truth unfolds whillt on his tongue Attention hangs enraptur (i. At that altar Peace lheds her balmy influence, far from Guilt And all his hideous offspring: Envy Wan With jaundic'd eye: Ambition's blul'tering voice Brawling for titles: hollow-hearted fmile Of cringing Adulation: dog-ey'd Lufi Kifling the bofom of chafle innocence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.