Classic Poem

Just such a happy Change, our Nation finds:
If we Unite, our once Contented Minds,
With our rich Neighbour: then, doth dawn the day,
Which drives all Feuds and enmities away.
Let base Revenge and Damn'd Envy be gone,
And all our Int'rests be conjoyn'd in one.
No Mastiff Devil can our good withstand,
If as true Friends, we do join hand to hand,
That so no more of jealousies be known;
And in our Isle, no more Dissention sown,
And each now, more than Self, his Country mind,
So henceforth, we that Blessedness shall find,
Which, n'ere before, we luckily cou'd reach,
No Wonder . Since so damnable a breach,
Did two brave Neighbours fatally divide;
What cou'd but war and Poverty betide?
Yet there's no State, in the vast Universe ,
Might more enjoy of bless or happiness,
Than we, the Natives of this admir'd Isle:
If we would banish prejudice and guile,
And let no more, our foolish ears be stunn'd,
With lies, mistakes, and fears, that have no ground.
'Tis true, oft England hath us roughly us'd,
And has our ruine and destruction chus'd;
Stop, Envy , stop, Scotland is guilty too;
How oft did she her Warlike hands imbrue
In English Blood? We can't Excuse pretend.
But let's no more 'bout former Strifes contend:
For if we Search, our Histories can tell,
Both have resisted one another Well .