satisfie at once his hopes and fears His hope that Daniel lives fills him with Joys His fear that he is dead the same destroys Darius's heart is in the Lions Den And new he moves to meet his heart agen How briskly I behold his Royal Feet With nimble motion hurry through the street His winged thoughts fly swifter than a Dove Yet cann't surpass the motion of his Love He values not the Complements of State Nor minds if his Retinue on him wait Nor for his Coach or Chariot will he stay Lest it should too much of his time delay If he can find his Daniel but alive 'T is satisfaction in superlative Might not Darius have a Faith which came By its Original from Abraham Who against hope firmly in hope believes And strongest Faith the most Assurance gives What though the Lions Beasts of Rapine are And though by hunger made the eagerer And what though human flesh and blood be sweet A novel Dish and not their usual Meat 'T is possible that Life from Death may spring Sure some such Faith as this possess the King He cryes aloud his voice the Air doth fill Ho! Daniel Daniel art thou living still Hold hold Darius cease thy hollow voice Lest thou awake the Lions with the noise Thy loud Allarms thy unexpected cryes May Rouse the savage Beasts to Sacrifice Thy Dearest Daniel who among them lyes If they have fasted all the night from Food May they not take their morning draught in blood And break their Fasts on that delicious Meat Which they last night set up and could not cat Brutes can no Reason give for their Delay Their savage Nature is for present prey They cannot trust but Run at all that lyes Within the prospect of their greedy Eyes Faith is a stranger to their Rav'nous Claws Sense only cloys or tires their greedy Jaws They think not of hereafter or before But gorge their Guts till they can eat no more The King well knew if Daniel mist their Jaws 'T was Providence not Project was the cause The King 's unchangeable Affections prove The greater Confirmation of his Love His Princely Favours pass beyond the Grave His Faith beyond his Sense what 's lost will save Through the Impenetrable Stones he calls His Soul wrapt up in sighs doth pierce the walls And safely doth arrive at Daniel's Ears Whose Joy doth swell when he his Master hears Daniel what greater honour can be shown Was ever Mottal Man so waited on Was ever Pris'ner when condemn'd by Fate Attended with such Majesty and State Thy God within thy King without the Gate Waits in his Person where he stayes till he The happy Prospect of his Daniel see And to Return Thanks to those savage Beasts For their Accommodations to their Guests For they contrary to their Nature now To the Beloved of their Master bow Now may you hear this worthy Porentate Express his Soul in Accents passionate O Daniel servant to the Living God Whose Habitation Dwelling and Abode Is in Eternal Everlasting Light Whose Eyes can penetrate the sable Night Is thy God able by his Pow'r to free From Death from Bondage and Captivity Such as depend on his Ability Darius Queries yet is far from doubt His Faith confirms what he is come about For he affirms thy God will set thee free His Confidence was in the Deity Experience past confirms his Faith the more That God can do what he has done before He the Effects of Faith doth now embrace For Living Daniel stands before his face Which through the Grates no sooner he esples The sudden Vision doth his Soul surprise As in an Extasie of Joy he stands And upwards elevates his Princely hands Being struck dumb with admiration hears His Daniels voice approach his Royal Ears In the same stile in the same Loyal sound O King for ever live live ever Crown'd With the Celestial Diadem of Glory When thou hast perfected thy Earthly Story Praises ascend from me to God above That he the heart of my dread Lord did move Thus to bestow on me his princely Love From Prayer he to Preaching doth proceed Though from his Chappel yet he is not freed The King stands in the porch and doth not stir But is content to be his Auditer Into two Branches he his theam doth bring Leaving the Application to the King He first the goodness of his God declares Next his own innocency he avers And these two points doth he unite to prove The mighty God doth Innocency love His Duty he from hence doth justifie Both to Divine and Earthly Majesty Such cannot be unfaithful to their King Who to their God are just in ev'ry thing Darius ne're was satisfied more In any Sermon he e're heard before The Surly Lyons seem to understand And watch the motion of his Lip and Hand How mute and how demure they sit and hear As if his voice were musick to the Ear. And if his silence so much aw'd their sence How were they charmed with his Eloquence Experience worketh confidence for he Can the Beasts Love and his own safety see Well may he trust whom he hath found his Friends One Mercy on another still depends The same deliv'rance which first set him free Makes him still trust in its security That which the Lyon and the Bear subdue Was the same Faith which the Philistine slew The Israelites on th' other shore that stood Were sureties for such as pass the flood So the same saith as firmly doth ingage Still to preserve as first to stay the rage Of the fierce Lyons till the Charm be past Which clearly quits the Innocent and Chast Which by his faith is justifi'd at last The Sermon being done the Seals are tore And open flies the stony Chappel door The Captive issues forth where soon he spies His Royal Prince wrapt up in extasies He 's Heaven struck with Joy and admiration His Soul is rap't in Divine Contemplation He like a Statue stands fixt and unmov'd His Royal Eyes gaze on his best belov'd His ravisht thoughts are glutted with excess Of Heav'nly Raptures which he can't express After some pause deliberately he Doth reassume the thoughts of Majesty And thundering forth with terrour on his Brow Those dreadful mandates which must follow now Orders for Execution forth are sent In favour of his Lord High President Those who have his destruction thus design'd Must the revenge of great Darius find Those who his life have plotted to betray Shall their own lives instead of Daniels pay What they would take from him they down must lay This Day 's Deliverance is of high Esteem When Heav'n Beloved Daniel did Redeem And now the King Resolves to keep a Feast In Memory of his Reprieved Guest But the first Course he to the Lions sends To make their fasting Appetites amends They could not tast the Dish that first was drest Therefore the King supplies 'em with a â—east Varieties of Sexes choice of Meat ' Cause on a single Dish they cannot eat On which when serv'd their eager stomachs feed They have not patience till the Cloth be spread Daniel gave Thanks before they scorn the fashion But fall on boldly without Invitation They 're so impatient that they cannot stay But meet each Course while in the middle way Ere the Meat comes to Table they devour And drink Carouzes to the Emperour In the hearts-blood of these Man catching Feinds Those vile Trappaners of the King 's best Friends The crackling of whose Joynts their Musick is They find no sweeter Melody than this And having sup't betake themselves to Rest Well satisfi'd with this Delicious Feast Till they awake and Rouse themselves agen To overlook the Fragments in the Den They ready are for more if more there be Found acting Treason ' gainst his Majesty Thirsting with greedy Appetites for Blood As those Men did who lately were their food And 't is but Nat'ral that the Flesh of those Monsters of Nature whose Designs oppose Sov'regnity in Monarchs and contrive His Best of Subjects to Intomb alive 'T is natural I say that such should be Incorporate in Inhumanity To savage Nature they degenerate Savage they are and in that savage state They justly are condemn'd to savage fate No need of Process Summoning or Juries He who Infallibly both Just and Pure is Sits Judge in Court he who alone surveys Dark obscure thoughts untrodden crooked waies Of sinful Mortals he who sits on high Condemns and who shall dare to justifie 'T was he those Catifs to destruction hurld And by his Miracle convinc'd the world It is a Maxim Politick in State And the prime Lesson of a Potentate To fix the Crown on his own Temples sure And in his Royal Throne to sit secure Therefore at first remov's what may impede The Diadems fixation on his head And if Conspiracy hereafter moves So losty as to strike at what he loves Then Policy calls Majesty to rouse And his Beloved Subjects Cause espouse For such as venture at his Royal Breast To rend from thence what he doth value best Will the next onset ravenously fly To strike the very Heart of Majesty That insolence which dares attempt the one Dares undermine or overthrow the Throne The Great Darius will decree oâ—… more But not against the Heavens as before He will be God no longer but lay down His Divine Title for a mortal one
Inconsiderate These Men alone with Faith and Courage fill'd Against their God and Conscience scorn to yield They give a check to th'uncontroul'd Decree Shewing to God and King Fidelity That Impious Law which like a Torrent slows In honour to their God they dare oppose Though to the Face of Inrag'd Majesty Confiding in their God they dare defy The Fulness of a gen'rous Confidence In the Great Power of a God Immense Lifts their Resigning Souls so much the higher Before Idolatry to chuse the sire This did the Glorious Miracle Increase Honour to God and to Religion Peace Adds Credit here and future Happiness So little disadvantage doth attend On such as on their God and Truth depend Such as stand fast to what they do profess Wrap themselves up in future Happiness Such honour their Profession and their God Whose Faith on Kings unjust Commands have trod When in the face of Death the King of Terrors By owning God convince the World of Errors With Constancy and Courage such proclaim Triumphant Conquests of Eternal Fame With what Assurance do such Souls convince There 's none Infallible no not the Prince And he in Capitals may Read at large Such Men will certainly their Trust discharge And well conclude in such he may confide Who from their God refuse to turn aside What Service then did Daniel to the Crown By lifting such to Places of Renown Whose Noble Tempers and Heroick Souls Their Princes Laws when against God controuls How happy is that Prince whose Grand Affairs Are lodged in such Noble Breasts as theirs Who rather yield their Lives to Death than be Actors of Treason against Soveraignty These are no Pimping Sycophants that win Court-Favour by alluring Kings to sin No their Brave Minds Debauches will explode And all leud Pleasures that affront their God They 'l rather have their Lives before him laid Than yield his Interest should be betray'd Ere they 'l dishonour God or slatter Men Or stifle Conscience they 'l to Fire or Den Which Truth in time makes glorious agen Thus Richly cloath'd with Graces Daniel lives Belov'd of all those State-Superlatives Th' Eternal Being often doth Recite Daniel the Prophet is a Favourite What greater Honour can on Mortals be Than be Beloved of the Deity His Prince that Mighty Monarch also loves him For he a holy prudent States-man proves him In whose high Favour he securely dwells Wisdom and Piety in him excels In the whole Series of this Monarch's Reign What Great Esteem his Worthiness did gain Nebuchadnezzar's Honour did maintain Alas what 's this what sweet Repose can be Within the Arms of Earthly Majesty When some at Princes Favours do arrive In their Esteem they no where else can live Those warm Embraces of a Prince's Love Chills their Devotion that it cannot move To seek Repose Eternally above Not walking in those paths which Daniel trod Who thought his greatest Good was nigh his God For he consults an Earthly Prince must die Therefore seeks Peace with Divine Majesty And Piety can no Assurance give He shall secure in Princes Favours Live The least Affront of Royalty destroys All hope of comfort in Terrestrial Joys Or if by Death a Monarch be remov'd The next Successor hates the Man he lov'd Daniel Divinely may the World convince There 's no fixation on an earthly Prince When that Great King Nebuchadnezzar's gone Daniel forbears Attendance on the Throne But for what cause our Prophet did retire Whether his God his Service did require Or whether King Belshazzar disapprov'd Whom his Grandfather had in honour lov'd Or whether Time had Razed out the Fame Of his Memorials or obscur'd his Name Or whether by his distance from the Court The King had lost the Fame of his Report Or for what other cause to me unknown He seems a perfect stranger to the Throne Until a Hand without an Arm affords Strange characters both to the King and Lords For they carouzing were in fluvious Bouls Till the Almighty's Hand their Mirth controuls Which did with Terrour such Amazement bring To this so Potent but now Trembling King He straightway did to his Magicians send Who instantly on his Commands attend But all in vain for Mortals cannot see Th'Interpretation of the Heav'ns Decree No other Spirit can the thing declare But his whose Hand did write the Character The Aged Queen to the Young King doth tell Excelling Wisdom doth in Daniel dwell Send Messengers for him in him alone Is found Divine Interpretation He 's come Belshazzar highly doth adore him Honour and Dignity are laid before him Which of no worth he modestly refuses The King may give his Gifts to other uses Yet will he serve his God and King in this To let the King know what God's meaning is No Flattery from Daniel's Lips will flow But the King shall his Fatal Ruine know And who but Daniel dares to tell him so The clear Divine All seeing Eye behold That he the Scepter was unfit to weild When in the Heav'nly Ballance he was weigh'd He was too light the Scale turn'd Retrograde And though on Earth he was a Monarch Crown'd Fitter for Tomb than Empire he was found Esau his Birth right greedily devours So he prophanely drinks an Emperours No Cups so well could please his Impious mind As what for sacred uses were design'd Upbraiding Heaven daring to desy The Infinite All Ruling Deity Having forgot the Generation past When 's Grandfather with Beasts had his Repast Became a grater Brute in brutish sort Turning into a Bachanale his Court Forgetting he was Mortal and must dye And pass Account with Divine Majesty No wonder that the God Omnipotent This sudden Summons to Belshazzar sent No Variation in this firm Decree He who is all Immutability Signs with his Hand the King's Mortality Yet ere he goes to his Eternal Port He will Exalt Good Daniel in his Court Thereby to Bribe the Heavens to reprieve And to Revoke the Doom that he may Live Daniel a Friend of God's he did Esteem Was Policy to make God Friends with him Therefore proclaims him by his Great Command To be the Third Chief Ruler in his Land But then alas what sudden Change how soon Low Earthly Glory is from Mortals gone Honour and Riches make them Wings and fly As Streams do lessen when the Fountain's dry The King that night is summon'd to the dust Where his prophane Acts do his Glories Rust The Prophecy's fulfill'd the King must come Unto his Judgment and Eternal Doom When next Darius mounts the Losty Throne The Mede is now King of Great Babylon Fame to his Ears Daniel's great worth makes known In whom was found so Excellent a Soul Whose temperate mind his passions could controul The Aged King by his Grave Wisdom knows This weighty Crown will be too ponderous For his Gray Head his Age consults his Ease And therefore chuseth sixscore Deputies And over them he constituteth three The Best Beloved of his Monarchy To whom all those accountable must
thirty daies adore him Allowing God as School boys for their Plays An undivided Month of holy days And whoso dares in thirty daies to pray To any other God his Life shall pay O King Darius thou art mounted high Who says you're Gods when God says you must die Those Tributes due to Caesar I will pay But who makes man a God doth man betray Those Honours and Prerogatives which be The proper Rights of Earthly Majesty I in obedience to my God will bring And pay as due unto my Soveraign King But those that Kings Exalt to that degree As they did Herod by their Flattery Are none of Caesar's Friends for God above Now for his Honour is oblig'd to move And with his slaming Darts and Arrows keen Le ts Mortal Kings know that they are but Men. Thus that Blasphemous Rout the Papal Tribe My Ink's not black enough for to describe How have they Deifi'd their Idol Pope Our Great Lord God he 'd more become a Rope Darius ne'r consults from whence might spring The Branches of this new promoted thing Blinded with Honour and Ambition he Could not Inspect his Nobles Hattery The Treacherous Design was hid from him He did it perfect Loyalty Esteem Some Policy of State that might procure A Grandeur of his Empire more secure That in his Glory he might brighter shine And therefore doth more easily incline Especially since he has but of late Mounted the Babylonian Throne of State Those proffer'd Honours he doth not withstand But the Decree signs with his Royal hand This Mortal Monarch King of Babylon Justles th' Immortal Being from his Throne But his Ambitious Daring Rash Design Calls from an Angry God Revenge Divine A Rash Result such may repent too late Who answer first ere they premeditate To do and then consider is it good T'answer a question ere 't is understood Thus I this sensless fancy understand It shall be so what was 't you did demand Men may pretend great Politicks to be But such an Act is far from Policy To do and then to say what have I done Would I had let this Stratagem alone Looks like the Fool describ'd by Solomon A wise man's Tongue is in his Heart for he Ere he resolves looks what th' effect will be The Plot is laid Sagacious Daniel sees This an Intrigue laid by his Enemies His piercing Judgment soon informs his mind That his Destruction's by their Plots design'd In that Decree did Daniel plainly Read His Execution firmly was Decreed Yet 't is below his Generous Soul to move One step from God his firm Devotions prove How little he doth dread their Stratagem He bids Defiance both to it and them He scorns to Live Death he will rather chuse And will his Life before his Duty lose Ere he will want Communion with his God For thirty daies he 'l pass that Bloody Road Which they provided for him their Decree Must be his way to Immortality If the True Ends of Life he cannot have 'T is not worth Living better chuse the Grave Death is the only way to set him free The Port that lets in to Eternity Where he may commune with his God by prayer Daniel resolves to serve him here or there No sooner had that Royal Hand and Pen Sign'd that Insnaring Law but these Great Men Turn all Informers greedy of their prey How to Insnare Trapan Accuse Betray The Lord High President for he alone Their Object is he sits too nigh the Throne How do they sneak about his house and creep Under the windows and through crannies peep Methinks I see how covertly they stand Each a Dark Lanthorn in his trembling hand Their easie Footsteps and their watchful Ears With their dumb signs and silent charecters That nothing might impede but that they may Through their own silence hear the Prophet pray O how their hopes do swell their blood doth rise When they behold the Casement open flies How their hearts leap for Joy their Souls revive In hope this opportunity will thrive And he Brave Spirit scorning to Retire Or to obscure the thing which they desire Doth that on purpose to confirm their Ears That they nor yet their Impious Law he fears But his Devotions to his God will pay And in Despite of their Decree will pray The wings of Faith and Zeal mount him above Fear of Darius hate or hope of Love Shall Daniel his Beloved God disown Or wear a Mask on his Religion No 't is below the Greatness of his Soul To stain Religion with an act so foul As not to do the thing he does profess He from his Principles will not digress His holy Resolutions bear the sway His God in spight of Mortals he 'l obey No sooner have their piercing Eyes inspection Of the least Motion towards Genuflection When they behold those sacred Joynts to bend How greedily their Eyes his Motions tend How his preparatory Sighs they mind What they have sought now they expect to find They diligently hearken not for zeal Their Itching Ears wait but for an Appeal That they might hear his voice so as to prove It was directed to a God above And though the Heavens as if the force they felt At his pathetical Expressions melt A different Effect in them it seals Their putrid hearts it hardens or congeals Illustrious Prophet little do we know What various Passions in thy mind doth flow Within thy sacred Breasts such thoughts may live Nature ' gainst Grace Grace against Nature strive Or thou art Extasi'd beyond the cares Of thy terrestrial transient low affairs Surely thy Soul slies upwards to its Rest Sweet Divine Raptures issue from thy Breast Methinks I hear thy heav'nly thoughts exprest And must I now forsake my God or pay My Life to Man if I my God obey Must I on such unhappy terms as these Forfeit my Life or God of Life displease Shall the confederating Heathens say Die Daniel die or Heav'n disobey Must my Devotions hurl me to the Grave Must Prayer kill which is a means to save 'T is worse than Death to live one day alone Without Access to the Coelestial Throne How then shall I with Thirty Daies dispence What 's Life when Means of Life is banish'd hence Must I upon my Lips these Fetters wear Must my Affections and my Tongue forbear To call upon my God my Hope my Trust No let me Die e're I do prove unjust Rather let Beasts a passage tear and free My Captive Soul from its Captivity That it may to Eternal Manfions sly And take possession of Eternity Now let them Rend me from Darius Love For that their Heav'n is but mine 's above My Body is the King 's at his Command But my dear Soul is in my Maker's hand To the fierce Lions I 'll become a prey E're I my God's Commands will disobey The Heathens shall not glory over me Nor yet Rejoyce in my Apostacy Hold pause a little Daniel do'st not sly Upon thy winged Zeal at pitch too
satisfie the Law why was it made If Kings their own Prerogatives Invade The King demurs unwilling to proceed His hand would cancel what he has Decreed How willing would His Majesty Reprieve Although for once he strain'd Prerogative But since their Plot hath had so good success They will again impatiently address Nor will they be deny'd of their Demand The King himself shall not the Law withstand But void of manners sawcily proceed To tell the King the Law he once Decreed He cannot change nay shall not nor is able The Medes and Persians Law 's unalterable And though the King the Kingdom 's Laws would null We will be satisfied to the full Daniel must Die why doth the King contrive What by that Law is dead to keep alive In vain Darius thy protecting hands Strive to preserve what thy own Law commands To Dire Destruction thou in Honour must Doom thy Indeared Favâ—…rite to Dust The King Commands but O what Inward Care What Grief what Soul-sick Trouble what Despair Approach his Royal Breast he sighs he grieves He weeps and sobs when he the Sentence gives Ah Da-Da Daniel whom I Lo-Lo-Love Thy De De-Death must th-th-Thee Remove The Se-Se-Sentence I cannot deny Dear Daniel thou M-M-M-M-must Die And now farewel thou matchless Peer adieu My Brightest Star I never more shall view Thou most Illustrious True and Loyal one Thou Greatest Treasure of an Earthly Throne Never was King so happily possest Never was any Mortal Monarch Blest With such a Faithful Servant such a Flow'r The only Glory of an Emperour But thou art mounting to Eternal Joyes Beyond the Light Low Mean and Trivial Toyes Of Earthly Honours where thou shalt be Blest In Glorious Mansions of Eternal Rest Freely could I dis-robe my self of State And leave to be an Earthly Magistrate To change my self to Spirit and to sly With my Dear Daniel to Eternity But that I stay behind to sacrifice Whole Hecatombs of th'Impious Enemies To thy unspotted uncorrupted mind They my avow'd severe Revenge shall find Destruction as a Recompence I 'll pay To those who did thy Innocence betray But stay my thoughts is not that God the same Who met his Servants in the furious Flame My Faith persuades me to a firm belief Thy God will shew his Pow'r and send Relief And lest thy Enemies the same should fear And so consult to send some Murderer More cruel than the Rav'nous Lions are I to prevent any such Black Design With my own Signet will the Prison sign I 'll seal thee up to the protecting hand Of thy own God the God of Sea and Land How stately to the Den doth Daniel move Laden with Trophies of his Prince's Love Cloath'd with the Graces of his God is he Armed in holy Armour Cap a Pe. He nothing leaves behind him that may seem Needful to take to Heav'n along with him Thoughts of Revenge he doth so much desie As he can wish his greatest Enemy An equal share in Glory with his own Whose Malice sought his Dire Destruction Those who did causlesly his Life betray For their Eternal Happiness he 'l pray How like an Isaac is our Daniel come Ready to pass from th' Altar to the Tomb Behold th' unspotted Sacrifice is drest On which the Priestly Lions are to feast But to his wonder and amazement finds Their Savage Nature vary from their kinds What Miracle is here this fatal Den Presents more Favour than Inraged Men. More Friendship in the Lions Den is shown Than in the Royal Court of Babylon A Glorious Spirit did his Soul invest True Righteousness was fixed in his Breast He was begirt with Truth and Innocence These were his Arms or Armour of Defence His Adamantine Shield he held so fast As made him Lion-proof they 'l rather fast Nay starve than tast or touch such heav'nly Food And Die with Thirst ere drink his sacred Blood Civil instead of savage they appear They crouch submit and fill'd with awe and fear They tremble e're attempt in Rage t' abuse Whom neither God nor yet the King accuse Thus Daniel in his Duty stands before His God and God Demands of him no more He yields his Life his Faith to testifie And rather than be false to God will Die Whose life the hand of providence protects He shall not Die that thus his life neglects But he shall freely keep what freely he Offer'd to give it shall Restored be The heav'nly Power 's ingag'd to set him free The Royal King in Mourning Robes is drest His Thoughts abandon any kind of Feast His Mourning Soul fasts for his Best Belov'd Which Envy from him had to Death Remov'd All kind of Mirth is banish'd from the Court No Jovial pastimes no delightful sport Can have admittance there the King 's in tears Whose Grief creates Remorseness in his Peers No work for Fidlers Interludes or Playes Mourning is hung upon the Poets Bayes No Singing Dancing no delightful Airs Are heard in Court but doleful sighs and tears The Harp the Organ Flagellet and Flute The Violin the Dulcimer and Lute In silence hang by in the Musick Room As Rotten Ragged Scutcheons o're a Tomb. The King now out of tune nothing can bear That is Delightful to the Eye or Ear His thoughts present him Daniel's cryes and groans Whilst Lions Roar his Fun'ral o're his Bones But Daniel's Musick is to him more sweet While they lye crouching prostrate at his Feet They so melodiously do snore the Song Of his Salvation he can frame his Tongue To sing with them and lift his voice on high In Hallelujahs to the Deity His Joynts at ev'ry snort they breath can move And Dance Coranto's to the God above But all this while the King is discontent Alas he cannot yet behold th' Event Of this Dread Tragedy he thinks at least Daniel's imbowel'd in those Savage Beasts Therefore his Princely Eyes can take no Rest Sleep is a perfect stranger to his Eyes Before their Glances Gastly Daniel lyes And since his Best Beloved Watchman's gone He cannot slumber but will watch alone Ah! his Dear Daniel sleeps in Death and shall He who did love him sleep at 's Funeral But all this while Daniel securely lyes Watching amidst his sleeping Enemies And is become as a Life Guard of theirs Who were design'd his Executioners Their Gastly Eyes and Yawning Mouths are clos'd They sleep secure the Heav'ns hath them Repos'd Mean time his pure Ejaculations fly His faithful Prayers mount above the Sky Behold a Miracle is here exprest The Sacrifice doth pray and not the Priest He prayes they may not make a Midnight Feast No sooner did Aurora ope the Day Driving the Black and Darksom Clouds away No sooner were the Sable Curtains drawn And Dawning Brightness mounts the Horizon But Great Darius Riseth from his Bed To visit Daniel if Alive or Dead The first approaching Light his steps convey A Visit to the Lions Den to pay And by his hasty Motion it appears He 'l