Truth's consecrated residence, the seat

Impregnable of Liberty and Peace.

"And yet, O happy Pastor of a flock

Faithfully watched, and, by that loving care

And Heaven's good providence, preserved from taint!

With you I grieve, when on the darker side

Of this great change I look; and there behold

Such outrage[748] done to nature as compels

The indignant power to justify herself;

Yea, to avenge her violated rights,