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Occasional verse, English.
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"Poems written on several occasions by N. Tate." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63114.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2024.
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To the Translator of Father Simon's Critical History.
AS Esdras once did into Order draw,And to the new-freed Tribes revive the Law,So you, from Chains of Darkness which they wore,The Captive Oracles again restore.Hail, Inspir'd Father, who couldst force thy wayThrough Night's dark Empire to the Realm of Day.Your self creates the Sun that gives you Light,And forms the History by which you write.One Age dissolves (such force your Judgment bears)The settled Cloud of many thousand Years.This works first Fame was thine who did create,The second his that could so well translate.From whose joyn'd Beams a perfect Light we drawThe Ʋrim and the Thummim of the Law.
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