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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T131163 K104099.004 Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. IV. London printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley 1763 [1st ed. 1758] pp. 204-205. 6v.: music; 8⁰.

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The Revenge of AMERICA . By the Same . WHEN fierce PISARRO'S legions flew O'er ravag'd fields of rich Peru , Struck with his bleeding people's woes , Old India's aweful Genius rose . He sat on Andes' topmost stone , And heard a thousand nations groan ; For grief his feathery crown he tore , To see huge PLATA foam with gore ; He broke his arrows , stampt the ground , To view his cities smoaking round . What woes , he cry'd , hath lust of gold O'er my poor country widely roll'd ; Plunderers proceed ! my bowels tear , But ye shall meet destruction there ; From the deep-vaulted mine shall rise Th' insatiate fiend , pale Avarice ! Whose steps shall trembling Justice fly , Peace , Order , Law , and Amity ! I see all Europe's children curst With lucre's universal thirst : The rage that sweeps my sons away , My baneful gold shall well repay .