Blockade of the Castle of Edinburgh taken off, a Poem

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The Blockade of the Castle
of EdrEdinburgh is taken off.

Said Is’relIsrael’s King,1 divinely wise &and mild,

Make Nature’s Voice proclaim whose is the Child

Bring forth the Sword, with it decide yethe Strife;

The Mother must be tender of the Life.

Learn, Britons, hence your Judgment how to frame

By Nature’s Standard, which is still the same.

To save ev’neven Prodigals gives Fathers Joy;

Who is not Father says, —Go, Sword, destroy!