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Fond, impious Man, think'ft thou, yon fanguine cloud,

"Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the Orb of day ?

"To-morrow he repairs the golden flood,

"And warms the nations with redoubled ray,

Enough for me: With joy I fee

"The different doom our Fates affign.

"Be thine Defpair, and scepter'd Care,

"To triumph, and to die, are mine."

He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height

Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night.

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ORCADES of THORMODUS TORFAUS; HAFNIÆ, 1697, Folio: and also in BARTHOLINUS.

VITT ER ORPIT FYRIR VALFALLI, &c.

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The Author once had thoughts (in concert with a Friend) of giving the Hiftory of EngIn the Introduction to it,

lifh Poetry:

he meant to have produced fome specimens of the Style that reigned in ancient times among the neighbouring nations, or those who had fubdued the greater part of this Island, and were our Progenitors: The following three Imitations made a part of them. He has long fince dropped his defign, especially after he had heard, that it was already in the hands of a Person well qualified to do it justice, both by his taste, and his researches into antiquity.

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