His arms in solemn state are cross’d, His voice appalls th’ amaz’d beholders; His head in circling clouds is lost, And crimson pinions shade his shoulders. 6. Mortal, awake! the phantom cries, And burst the bonds of fear asunder! My name is _Anarchy_; arise! Thy future fortunes teem with wonder. 7. To spread my reign the earth around, Here take this sword, whose magic pow’r, Shall sense, and right, and wrong confound, And work new wonders ev’ry hour. 8. Throw off that peasant garb, begin T’ assume the party colour’d rover, And, as a sprightly Harlequin, Trip, lightly trip, all Europe over. 9. He spoke, and instant to the view Begins the curious transformation; His mask assumes a sable hue, His dress a pantomimic fashion. 10. Now round the Stage, in gaudy pride Capers the renovated varlet, Shakes the lath weapon at his side, And shines in blue, and white, and scarlet. 11. High on a rock, his cunning eye Surveys half Europe at a glance; Fat Holland, fertile Italy, Old Spain, and gay, regenerate France. 12. He strikes, with wooden sword, the earth, Which heaves with motion necromantic; The nations own a second birth, And trace his steps with gestures antic. 13. The _Pope_ prepares for war, but soon All pow’rful Harlequin disarms him, And changing into _Pantaloon_, Each motion frets, each noise alarms him. 14. With trembling haste he seeks to join His daughter _Gallia_, lovely rover! But she, transform’d to _Columbine_, Her father scorns, and seeks her lover. 15. The _Dutchman_ next his magic feels, Chang’d to the _Clown_, he hobbles after; Blund’ring pursues the light of heels, Convulsing friends and foes with laughter. 16. But all their various deeds of sin, What mortal man has ever reckon’d? The mischief plann’d by Harlequin, Fair Columbine is sure to second. 17. They quickly kill poor _Pantaloon_, And now our drama’s plot grows riper, When e’er they frisk it to _some tune_, The Clown is forc’d to _pay the piper_. 18. Each foreign land he dances through, In some new garb behold the Hero, Pagan and Christian, Turk and Jew, Cromwell, Caligula and Nero. 19. A Butcher, Harlequin appears, The rapid scene to Egypt flying, O’er captive Turks his steel up rears, The stage is strew’d with dead and dying. 20. Next by the crafty genius taught, Sportive he tries Sangrado’s trick, Presents a bowl, with poison fraught, And kills his own unconscious sick. 21. Hey pass! he’s back to Europe flown, His hostile foll’wers disappointed: Kicks five old women from the throne, And dubs himself the Lord’s Anointed. 22.