His share of future spoils, reward of clamorous din.

The torrent of sedition swells amain,

Disloyalty invades the firmest Dane;

And Christiern's arm, outstretch'd without delay,

Alone has power to prop his tottering sway.

Haste, while in momentary bounds is kept,

The struggling flood, which else may intercept

Your passage; haste! your new dominions quit;

Their care to some experienced chief commit;

Haste, and by speediest means secure your crown

Ere violence and treason tear it down!"

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While thus he spoke, the tyrant's mien express'd

The troubled sea that roll'd within his breast.

By hopes, and doubts, and fears, his mind was torn,

From thought to thought irregularly borne.

Thus the swift traveller, whose successful haste

Has many a hill, and many a wood o'erpast,

Trembling beholds new mountains touch the skies,

And wider forests all around him rise.

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