{"product_id":"the-poems-of-philip-freneau-von-philip-freneau-2","title":"The Poems of Philip Freneau","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn ages past, when smit with warmth sublime,Their bards foretold the dark events of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etime,And piercing forward through the mystic shade,Kings yet to come, and chiefs \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunborn survey'd,Amittai's son perceiv'd, among the rest,The mighty flame usurp his \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elabouring breast:¿For this, in dreams, the voice unerring cameOf Him, who lives \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough every age the same:\"Arise! and o'er the intervening waste,\"To Nineveh's \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimperial turrets haste;\"That mighty town to ruin I decree,\"Proclaim destruction, and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eproclaim from me:\"Too long it stands, to God and man a foe,\"Without one virtue left \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto shield the blow;[Pg 4]\"Guilt, black as night, their speedy ruin brings,\"And hottest \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evengeance from the King of Kings.\"The prophet heard¿but dared to disobey,(Weak \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas he was) and fled a different way;In Joppa's port a trading ship he foundFar o'er \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe main to distant Tarshish bound:The price of passage to her chief he paid,And \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethere conceal'd with wandering sailors stay'd,His purpose fixt, at once perverse and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eblind,To leave his country, and his God behind.But He who spread the ocean's vast \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexpanse,And views all nature with a single glance,Forth from its prison bade the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etempest fly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041987245\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eExploring the Literary Legacy of Philip Freneau: A Collection of Revolutionary Poems\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041987245","offer_id":48242158666053,"sku":"9791041987245","price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/47ee074b-55db-455e-8a16-91c4fcb40a50.jpg?v=1768456432","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-poems-of-philip-freneau-von-philip-freneau-2","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}