Ye active streams! where’er your waters flow,
Let distant climes and farthest nations know,
What ye from Thames and Danube have been taught,
How Anne commanded and how Marlborough fought.
On Blood’s stealing the Crown.
When daring Blood, his rent to have regained,
Upon the English diadem distrained;
He chose the cassock, surcingle, and gown,
The fittest mark for one who robs the crown:
But his Lay Pity underneath prevailed,