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Returning Justice lift aloft her scale;

Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend,

And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend.

The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain; 10

As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand opprest,

Clos'd one by one to everlasting rest;

His purple pinions opening to the sun,

He raised his azure wand, and thus begun:

Ah! still o'er Britain stretch that peaceful wand,

Which lulls th' Helvetian and Batavian land;

| He cared not for the affection of the house ;

| He held his scepter like a pedant’s wand

To lash offense, and with long arms and hands

Shook his gray locks, and his own Bayes did tear

At this intrusion. Then with Laurel wand,

The awful Sign of his supream command.

But hope tempestuous like a fire-cloud hove

I' the other's gaze, even as in his whose wand

Vainly all night with spell-wrought power has spann'd

Like queenly nymphs from Fairy-land—

Enchantress of the flowery wand,

Most beauteous Isadore!