HYMN ON THE NATIVITY.
Picture XXIX.
Mary and Jesus. The ruin of Paganism.
The Oracles are dumb,
No voice or hideous hum
Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
Apollo from his shrine
Can no more divine, &c.
The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn;
The brutish Gods of Nile as fast,
Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis haste.
Stanza xix. xxii-iii.
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