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 BATTLE OF THE NILE ; 
 
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 IN FOUR CANTOS. 
 
 *V WILLUȣ C. MACKINNON. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
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 bor,.„d half f,!„„ IIo„,.;;;,;!l' ,:'1V| e't ,0*'' 'Z 
 
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 What he .i.teiuls : a prose wrMer can stop where he please- 
 ifne ::Z ''" r "f^^" '"" intentions u. metre-tl e fir^l 
 ^"m;,r?,i^'' " '^'^rr *'"°"gh. but the next must he 
 ^rawn out to accord with the preceding; and thus it often 
 
 aKi;: '" ''"'• " '^""^"'^'^- Nefther can "e e S 
 is vervS ?r' ^°'^f *° = P°^''^«' conclusion, which 
 
 he mmd as the opening «f a poem. And thus it is fhat 
 in the best poetry. .Il-natured critir.- u,iii ^;-.„„„. ,.«,. 
 ^/.i«^ to censure (Shakspe.re's ' Adamant' alone excepted^ 
 ake away the erroneous parts of the'** Battle of the 
 
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 Nile/' and it will citdc into nothingness— -is the French 
 man who was admiring London — " Ah !" said he, " all 
 dis is ver fine, but take away do river and de beauty est 
 gone.". Now as regards the parts that allude to Alexandria 
 being named afier the conqueror ofthat name — a scribbling 
 critic would at once give a prosy aiui mircaetic de!>ertption 
 of \hfi prese't Iomh, and ridicule the Author's ignorance 
 in saying Alexandria (the present) was named after 
 Alexander the Great. (See Canto 2d.) But as the ft- 
 devant Alexandria was called after him, and its site very 
 near the present town. Poetry must describe the most 
 minute circumstance, and make every thing ap|>ear m 
 poetry. 
 
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 THE BATTLE OP THE NILE. 
 
 CANTO I. 
 
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 <lru. Ihe t.in« occupied m landing and tho Bawlo i, two day.. 
 
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 /Aey Aad no poet, and they died— 
 
 fn vatH they schrmed, in tain lluy bled, 
 
 ihty had no poet, and are dead.'—Pors. 
 
 Where Nile', amooth River, through the verdant plain 
 Pursue. ,t. way unto the briny main- ^ ' 
 
 Where Egypt once, in all her glory shone- 
 Where Pharaoh, and Ptoiemys filled a throne- * 
 Where Alexandria rear, his lofty tower.— 
 Where Hannibal, to conquest, led hi. powers- 
 Where Carthage wall, have all unmarked decayed 
 And left no token where 'twa. raiaed and madi ' 
 There wa. the acene-the theme of what I sing 
 
 Sported and bathed, with Cleopatra veiled. 
 Achillea' mother— silver-footed dame— 
 
 UaU.ed It to flniV n'an *r^ <!._ . -<■ n 
 
 To Nile she flew, and found a solace there. 
 
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 The (irccinn Inrtl did Ajnx raise lo fnmo, 
 
 And yet we know not, w<is there such a name ; 
 
 AcliiileH <tivinc, and warlike Hector too, 
 
 Miirlit never been — Imt what 1 sing is true. 
 
 O ! Haored Mu^c, iissii<t, in itucli u theme. 
 
 And let the numbers (low like Mome pellucid stream ! 
 
 p! tu'iefiil Nine! a miijhlv struclurc raise, 
 
 And rear a pillar to tjreat Nelson's praise. 
 
 When barburuus nations spread rapine and war, 
 
 And Mars, blood-thirsty, drove his iron car, 
 
 When verse was young — then patriots fou|i»ht and fell ; 
 
 Down sank their arms — their names in darknesa dwell ; 
 
 One age, perhaps, the story handed down — 
 
 And then ii diea — no bays the hero crown. 
 
 Oft has it been a poet's greatest fame, 
 
 To sound the glories of Britannia's name. 
 
 Thy name, in every age, adorned by kings. 
 
 As Harry* and IMwardt, of whom Calliope sings. 
 
 Oh, for a muse of fire, that would ascend 
 
 The heaven of invention, Homer-penned ; 
 
 Then should the nine unite, and sing the fate 
 
 Of that great Isle, of Britain's noble state — ilVf 
 
 Not seated on the land, her guardian train < '! 
 
 Upon the briny and tremendous main. ./ 
 
 
 Now landed on the slimy Egypt's shore 
 
 Was the great chieftain of fantastic war ; 
 
 With troop on troop, he rushes to the land. 
 
 That must stoop low before his conquering hand. 
 
 No country yet withstood his direful arm. 
 
 Which crush'd whole empires, and e'en Mars alarm'd. 
 
 As a fierce flood, long pent by granite walls, 
 
 That bursts its bounds, and o'er the mountain falls, 
 
 Tearing away the rocks that intervene, 
 
 And bounds from hill tu hill, and pours in each ravine ; 
 
 Henry V. 
 
 t Edwdrd III. it t nid o'i 
 
Where noble oaks, fit for nn ndmirnl's .nnm 
 l- or centuriei had withsion I fierce Horc.iV blaHt 
 Yel can't reaiat the c^iaract's rushinsf force 
 Tis torn away, and hurried on the course • ' 
 So did the nations fitll l)efore the hand ' 
 Of this ifreat general of the Gallic baud. 
 
 Napoleon Bonapirte, the victor'a name— 
 From Corsica's tumultuous Isle he came 
 Where hills on hills in lofty pites arise. ' 
 And where Ajaccio's mountains pierce'the skies • 
 Where towerm^ trees the mountain Mides adorn ' 
 While m the vnlleys waved the ^rolden corn ; 
 Mnjestic streams adown these mountains pour 
 And rumblinjr cataracts in the distance roar ' 
 JJefore fierce Civil war the Island shook 
 A cottage proudly stood, beside yon brook : 
 Here lived a lawyer, lather of this chief, .H nil 
 
 Who spread before him, death, and fire, and grief : '. 
 ( A butoher was his father," others sny— . ; 
 
 But here it was, that he first saw the day.) i .< ^1 
 
 He led the hosts of France from fiiyht to fight- 
 All that escaped, were those that took to flight 
 Small was his form, but mighty was his mind. 
 1 rained by Bellona--fear|A,s and unkind. I 
 
 His arts in war, ne'er eo. r -d were before 
 And such a warrior shall m* seen no more ' 
 Not Peleus' son, by Thetis, could surpass ' 1 
 
 Nor dreadful Diomedes, arrayed in brass.' * 
 
 Now into Egypt, with his troops, he goes 
 1 o hurl his vengeance on bis country's foes • 
 1 hen to his soldiers thus he cries aloud ' 
 While in close order stand the listening crowd- 
 Now safe in Egypt, though the main was o'er 
 l^overed with foes, from Rnwlnnd •« ihU =h--fe 
 Now once arrived, be firm, be "brav., be tVoe'"'' 
 And Egypt soon must be a prize for you • ' 
 
Once Egypt down, the Indiei next must fall, 
 And France'i ensign wive supreme o'er all ; 
 Have courage now, bo resolute, and bold. 
 For Enypt's yours, and then all Afric's gold" — 
 Thus Bonaparte. — And thus a chieftain aaid. 
 Whose name wms Klebei, in war's customs bred — 
 " 'Tis true, great General, we will conquer now, 
 But let us see the Vanguard's* towering prow. 
 Where sits great Nelson, hurling death and ahame 
 On all that bears a Frenchman, fur his name. 
 Our force on shore, perhaps, is safe awhile, 
 But our burnt fleets would make a funeral pile 
 To those that fall — if Nelson chance to come. 
 
 Our fate is sealed " The loud and deafening dram 
 
 Drowned what he would have aaid. Again 
 
 Bonaparte answers with a fierce disdain — 
 
 " Wl.at fears are these ? thoui{h Nelson were a Jove, 
 
 He dare not enter Aboukir's deep cove ; 
 
 A thousand shells would thunder on his head, 
 
 And him and all his crews, would sink amongst the dead. 
 
 No, Egypt's ours, and ours it still shall stand, 
 
 It cannot fall even by great Nelson's hand." 
 
 Loud deaftining shouts tli' impetuous soldiers give-^ 
 
 " We'll bury Nelson in his own blue wave." 
 
 De*8aix arose. With shining lace and gold — ..^ f 
 
 A rash adviser, but in battle bold ; .^|| 
 
 Ti rice had he saved hia leader from defeat. 
 
 But note, his counsel would have loss'd the fleet— 
 
 *' Great Chieltain, hear me. Let us face the foe, 
 
 And strike Britannia the decisive blow ; 
 
 Let us with one accord a tower raise. 
 
 That will protect our navy from the blaze : 
 
 Intrenchments make, the foaming bay around, 
 
 And let yon hill with bristling guns be crowned ; 
 
 Then if the hero of proud Albion's shore 
 
 Dare once attack, he will attempt no more." , 
 
 
Thus laid DeMaix. Hit CaplMft mtdt reslr^ ' 
 "Upon our fl«Mg, we never eould rely ; 
 Our irms by ia^d alone mMl oleer the way 
 E'en to the ahore'i of Bengal'a briny bay ; r 
 FirM Alexnndria's lowera mint kiu the (fust, 
 Aiid Jaffa then muai yield to coiiqupM'a Itiat. 
 Nm, let the flt?et eacnpe from Nelson'a hand, 
 And we with tfoorii witi dare bim touch the land." 
 
 Now in close oolumni to the Town they go, 
 Which iMuetf iorth the nulneroiM weli-nrmed foe ; 
 The Mamelukea in ail the Ihiee w^re found, 
 And but a few of Uritaiu'a aotdieri round.' 
 Now fionaparte—dreaaed in the gorgeoes greeb 
 The uuiforin of France'a hoata ha'l been— ' 
 With rich, red aoarlet banda on every eeanr, 
 Wh.le the brown gold re»plendantly did gream— 
 Hi»aword inlxid with gold and diamouda ahine . 
 Boirona owned him. for her aon divine; 
 Full in the front ilie little warrior atande, i #. 
 
 And thua accuaia the French repuhlto'a bacda 
 
 ••Frenchmen, unite, ai»d ere the light of day 
 Hath ruu iia circuit, that pnwd town muat ley 
 Either on the plain, level'd and known no more, ' 
 Or our great iUg must stream from yonder tower." 
 i/iT? ***..** •'•»"''*<^» pyramida he turned, ! 
 
 While all his soldiers with impatience burned. 
 
 Remember, friends, that foriv agea ther^ .; «< /f 
 Survey us now from azure Helds of air ; -tw f/ 
 Remember, then, four ihousaiiil years behold 
 Whether the French are slaves, or whetiier bold." 
 The aon^ried legions loudly ehout once more, . 
 Which IS succeeded by a stunning roar ; ] 
 
 Th' artillery first, pour'd forth its horrid flane, < I 
 I he muskets' roll across the distance came, 
 The drums now thunder, end the buglea aound. 
 iiie dnn, in vol iimea, rolls «tofl|p the gromd;' jtul 
 
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 Then like t whirlwind tniheu to the t^falh 
 The native horsemen of the Mameluke train j 
 Shrouded in smoke, in dust, in froth, and blood, 
 They f<lr Rorae time the French attacks wilhstoodi- 
 1 he long, loud roll that from the musket rung, 
 Soon the fierce rider from the saddle flung. 
 To every part the great French general flies, 
 With life and vigor flashing from his eyes, 
 "On, on, foi shame; what! are you men ?'' he cries; 
 "Rush on, and drive them from the now won field, 
 Andv shew how soon the French can make them yield. 
 With ''VivtRepublique" impetuously they fly, 
 And swear at once to conquer or to die, ' 
 
 Loud roars the cannon, sweeping columns down— » ' 
 The drum and charges, other noises drown— 
 Save where the bugle warns the distant chief 
 To march quiok there, or yonder give relief. 
 
 At length before, behind, Egypt gives way, * 
 And the tspiring French hath gained the day ; 
 The woonded's groan* are changed to piercing cries, 
 As o'er their necks the frighted horseman flies ; 
 Thotie that oa foot, now cast their arms away, 
 
 And aU who fly, promiscuously ihey slay 
 
 The cJradi of weapons, and the vietor'a cheers, 
 Far on the winds the raging Eolas bears. ' )' 
 
 Now to tk«.|ieaks of Alexandria's heights 
 
 My mind shall glide— the Muse sustain my flights. 
 
 Lo, swe^ing o'er the vast, deep, watery sheet, 
 
 Behuld the tow'ring canvass ol a fleet ! 
 
 Tlify foaming onward, dash ih' Atlantic spray 
 
 Far in the sunbeams of the closing day ; 
 
 Fast they arc nearing Egypt's slimy coasts, 
 
 Now swarming with the French republic's hosts : 
 
 t sjcj ««.. s. a press, iiiie auuie vttMi iuiiig of life, 
 
 Like somefell fiend who bttrns for blood and strif*. 
 
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 The British tnsiffn flutters o'er this fleet. 
 While joyful hearts prepare the fpes to meet- 
 By Jove, designed to hurl the Gallic name 
 To sad destruction, and eternal shame. 
 
 As the shek charMr rashes to (he plain 
 Ewy and free, so these the briny main— 
 The foam flics off, and streaks his glossy side. 
 He rears his head, in conscious slrenifth and pridti '* 
 So dotl. ih«8e ships, that like cne engine move. Cj^' 
 An awful strucl.ire. made by . Jwdering Jove; ' \ 
 1 he watery fuam fiies from the sable bows, 
 DMshes aside, and o'er the high-reared prows • '• 
 
 As PjicBbua' chariot, by one guiding hand, ' 'r' 
 
 Flies ihrnugh void space— a sight supremely grand:'' 
 As bus, the rudder guides these ships of war, \ 
 Whose streamers' glare is view'd with fear afar } ' 
 Like a fierce meteor or a boding star. ' J 
 
 Like two fierce serpents of the Eatery world '^f'W 
 Who to destruction wish all Egypt hurled * 
 Naw on the Nilus lofty ships of wir ' 
 
 Securely float, nor see the foe afar ; fs oT 
 
 Alexandria'* heights support ermed men agiin' nflilT 
 And cannons bristle from the hill and main. '' ' '* 
 Though Eolas lately sought to baulk their odurH 
 He now was silent— calmly lay their force: - ■ - —' 
 The proud tri color braved the azure ikies 
 And loud "oivat" in vauntiDf tonei arite.' 
 
 
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 n*^ IW'nng pPVM of Music— Homer the Sxat^^d src«U)st 
 Poet— CAuses of the Ruptur? between Franfe aud EDfland— 
 Thoughts awakened by the ylcinity of ancient Greece and 
 Romp— The Heroes of these countries- Mourns the destruction 
 of Troy and berchampicn— The British fleets advance— Anger of 
 Bonaporte, OQ tl^a^ occas«Qn— CoMncil held ^n board tiw firuash 
 Adnairals ship \ tfie re^nlt of which }», to dasfa ou ^ pfice into 
 the fiarbor— AtlS o'clock in the afternoon, the Battle begins— 
 NeJion's Address to his men; and Captain Millar's, on the same 
 occ^ion. The Canto ends in an address to Julius Gasar. The 
 Bceqfe iff ||ie mo,^ik flf Ibe Wije; and tbe Battle during the night. 
 
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 When illff^piljai, iijiid war, fin4 hmmtf* r«ge. 
 Spread oVr %\ip wprJd, if 9 ^i^arian ag» ; 
 When Mars' fierce 4»laf ion rou^d tb« torpid hMd* 
 To spread destruction wah their muf d^rous hai.ds ; 
 Then PfA{B9, m\k nM h^itraio. Jeft the dread soeMt^ 
 Wild Di8.(;pr4 ruges, viMafO 6r«8 (f^leain ; , . a 
 
 ThWi^rftijjJd llmii anyafr^iAspiriog straina < »i'r 
 Re? iving th<^« 1v(m» defola^fl tbe plsiAS ; 
 Eren in thoae itjm^ ^h«n r^deoesM lM»t prevailed, 
 And city, ciif-nri»afitiBd, mankind asaaiJed. 
 The ignorant warrior, stretched upon the field, 
 Wearied with slaughtering those who even yield — 
 Or weak with toil, exhausted in the chase— 
 Or for his life, had fled at quickest pace ; 
 Let but be heard the Muses' lively strain, 
 The jaded warrior will his feet regain, 
 Seizes the sword or grasps the twanging bow— 
 lospired with music meets again the foe. 
 And the sweet Nine throogh every age doth fire 
 The cooling blood, frona Orpheua'a l)re. 
 
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 Hail, bard inspired ! Parnassus' highest peak 
 Is much too low for thee, great, tuneful Greek— 
 Who first the ringing and the thrillin;; choir j 
 Touched with true accents on thy noble lyre, > 
 And fills ihy readers with a martial fire; ' ) * 
 'Tw^s thno, great Homer, first explored the way, 
 And thy first beam sheds light at every ray. 
 
 Tell me, O Muse! what king's resentment garc 
 (Or rain diRpnte) fierce Mars such oniiv to rave. 
 Twaa n««t by ancient ritjhts, or feuds cnlleti. 
 Or groundless liiieHge. hosts to be eriihr»lle(i • 
 As when the '♦ stnr of Et.glniid," o'er the wave, 
 Made French, in millions, seek a foreign grave; 
 1 hey heedless of ibe mighty hero's word, 
 In scoffs mid jest, they failed t.i draw the sword, ' * 
 lill o'er the boiling foam the Briion gaine.i 
 The dormant hnds o'er wbich h- should have reigned 
 He crushed the mocking foe— dispersed them far- 
 Fired by Mars, and brighf-eyed maid of war • ' 
 •Tin dauntless " Joan of Arc" the charm dispels. 
 And Francei's star in the ascendant dwells; 
 The charm, 'tis true, from British bands had fled. 
 But long ere this, their mighty king was dead; ^"^ 
 How AvoR's bard this glorious theme declared ! 
 And Soulhey, too, the inspiration shared. 
 
 Bui on no groundless title to the Crown, 
 That erush'd our armies, and their navies down ; 
 But mighty Britain, neutral as the breese ' 
 
 That'si«igs with nature through the rustling trees, 
 Saw an ui happy empire swim with blood. 
 And miscreants adding rivers to this flood ; 
 Britannia view'd a monarch dragged from all 
 lie loved on eLi<ih>-i-vpt f.nnlil nnt ..»« Ui- r-iti . 
 
 &he saw i^at nation's rightlwl sov^feign bow 
 His sacred head upon the scaffold low ; ^^^ 
 
 She saw his heir, an exile o'er the earth. 
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 She saw whole nations trembling to their base, "^^ 
 
 And the Republic's streamer wnve in every place. 
 
 No longer could the indignant Goddess bear / 
 
 These cries of woe, unheard, to fill the air. 
 
 No, «he was free — surrounded by the niain 
 
 Where warriors swarmed — and Freedom, in the plain — 
 
 An e^npire, like great Rome, where Freedom fliea— 
 
 The Arbitrefls of nations, brave and wise; 
 
 With indignation fierce, no longer she 
 
 The wounds of injured liberty would see; 
 
 With dread avcnt^ins fire in her eyes, 
 
 She bids her Nelson, and her seamen rise ; 
 
 She bids her dread tremendous thunders roll 
 
 Along the.vassal deep, from pole to pole. 
 
 Between Gibraltar and low Afric'smain. 
 
 And far behind them, fast receding Spain, 
 
 The British fleet are now of wind bereft, 
 
 Just as Italia opens to the left. 
 
 O, what a scene for contemplation there. 
 
 Where Rome's far hills their towering glories rear ; 
 
 Lo, to the left famed Troy and Greece appears, 
 
 See ancient turrets' forms, (decaying) rears ; 
 
 See to the Northward lies Parnassus' mount, 
 
 The Nine's great throne, and Music's flowing fonnt ; 
 
 There lies Olympia — Jove's departed seat — 
 
 The hero, victor, and the gods' retreat ; 
 
 There, once, was Glory, and immortal Fame, 
 
 There far-famed Tully first did sound his name. 
 
 There Scipio conquer'd, and the Tarquin reign'd, 'd 
 
 There mighty Brutus* Freedom's rights maintain'd;f 
 
 There first great Plato did unfold his mind, H 
 
 There Maro, and bright Ovid's merits shin'd, A 
 
 Here godlike Cato fell — ah I there he died ; 
 
 There in his chariot Caesar's form did ride ; 
 
 Look to the right I — immortal Pompey here 
 
 Fell by the dambw^ Septimai's spear ; 
 
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 There Egypt', faith to ireison's gloom gave wit : 
 There plots benighted truth', refulgent rat ; 
 There Carthtrfe'. noble towers once proudly rose 
 1 here Hannibal threw down his country's foes. ' 
 
 Sicily's Island far to the windward lies, 
 Wow almost sunk beneath the western skies: 
 Behold her distant Etna's fiery mount 
 Where awful lava forms a blazing fount 
 
 in^f? '!^>^A% *":".'"" '**"'*" »^'« mountain pours, 
 And tortur'd Earth, in belching thunder, roars. 
 
 Most famed of all. immortal Troy, once great— >^' 
 
 A lovely country, and a sacred state. 
 
 O I dire the fate of that unhappy town 
 
 By furious powers and Grecian hands huri'd down : 
 
 L.mg did great Hector's arm thy walls defend, ' 
 
 1 hat Hector who to foes could never tend. 
 
 Firii youthful Troilus, like the god of war. 
 
 Who thundered fury from his roll.ng car. 
 
 He fell beneath the Grecian darts supine. 
 
 ■1 hough favored by great Phoebus divine. 
 
 '1^!I.?"l*°''.'!'^'"*'"' "'*'•' Scythi.in boar, 
 1 hat bathes his tusks in victims' gushing gore 
 Hi. strong right hand the Trojans did sustaid.' 
 1 III slain- by cunning on Scamander's plain— 
 
 Scamander s sacred and calm silver flood. 
 
 Ofl choked with bodies, dyed with hu r.an blood. 
 
 Deathless Achilles 'twas, who struck the blow 
 
 And false Minerva, his inveterate foe. 
 
 When rroy's great champion lay among the dead. 
 
 tJI h JT"/"'"^' '*"' ^'*^«*^ ^*' °»P»'»« head; 
 1 he blooti, Grecian sacked it o'er and o'er. 
 
 And 1 roy . imperial seat is found no more. 
 
 But rushing on in all her majesty 
 
 1 he gallant Zealous pressed upon her Ice ;• 
 
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 In two long lioM the atately ships adrance^ 
 To meet the oavy of chivalroiiH France i 
 Under twelve thousand yards of towering sail 
 NelsuD flies on, tremendous as the gale. ,.^ , v> 
 
 How calm the seas, how etill the dny'i becomv^ - 
 
 Nought breaks (he silence but the (Jisinnl drum. 
 
 O! 'tis but transient 1 and tiio quiet flown, 
 
 'JMie Stars shall blacken, and the earth shall gtouii 
 
 Bellona in't, I see her sweep afari 
 
 Revenge tn\d murder at her iron car ; 
 
 See Mars, with n; kcd arm and iirows of blood, 
 
 Despatch his minions through Nile's fearful fioodt 
 
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 When first the tidings of these events dire — 
 
 Who sounded these fell tidings in bis ear^ ,., (^jv^I 
 
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 ''Ah, cursed Fortune!" cries the angrr chief,? ti<,i >< 
 
 " Is this the way you lend your dupes roliefl,; udW 
 
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 On!) in Nile to find a foreign grave. 
 
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 Cireat Pallas nerves him — Thetis smooths his waj) 
 
 AntI Neptune's empire doth he wholly away. 
 
 The winds are at his call — Eolas directs: 
 
 Alas ! I see our ships, all dismal wrecks. 
 
 Vet dreadful as he is, and favored so, 
 
 To met him, great Napoleon dares to go." ., /> 
 
 Thus said the chief — he leaves the conquered towQ( 
 
 And from the towering heights looked proudly dawii 
 
 tie views the fleit, and rages at the stghti.j^ ; • ; 
 
 JDescends> and all pre^^ares to meet the fatal 6g1ilt 
 
 Now o'er the waste ofwaiets Eiii{i and comes. 
 Far in th' advance tlie rolling Zealous foams. 
 Yes, the tall Zealous led the way to fame^ 
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 Twaa IVom hor decks the enemy ftrat was seen 
 
 In dark array against relief of green. 
 
 The Bellerophon. next the Zealous came. 
 
 Crowded with caojas, Darby her chiefs nama. 
 
 Under all sail the fleet for Nilus bear 
 
 The tardy Swiftsure bringing up the rear. 
 
 TcTmir °I Pf* ^?' *"'* ^'^•'y »•"« *^w braced 
 
 Th«T-.- K '^°*' *■ *^ '"''"'^ '^'^ °o* <»*l«n waste. 
 The British tars, in Jittle bands around 
 
 E.Th r^h ''T ' "?'?•' •" "-« '''«y''« -hit or drownU 
 Each b.ds his friend farewell-whoe'er survives 
 Will bear the message, to their friends and wivts. 
 
 On Nelson's deck in conference now stand 
 1 he gallant leaders of the British band : 
 
 And HollowtH, fearless of the darts of death 
 With famous Berry, of the Hawke-ian school. 
 And Lewis, who the Minotaur did rule: 
 Great Westcott. and Saumarez. were amons 
 I. hat daring and immortal British ihronir. 
 ^rsi spoke great Nelson-fame's immortal son- 
 Who scenes of danger could not ever shun : 
 
 My comrades, let us haste this very nisht 
 And bring the French into a general fight; 
 This moment let us dash into the bay— 
 AJready we the briny ocean sway ; 
 Give them no time to breathe, ere they all flv- 
 Willing to lose their fleet, but not to die. ^ 
 10 Hurl them from the waters let us go 
 And let this fate attend our George's 'foe." 
 Applauding cheers, and shouts, at once declar'd 
 1 he counsel good-the crews his feelings ahar'd 
 Enthusiasm flew from breist to breast, 
 1 he lust of glory every mind inv^R.. • 
 ^or did a chief of alfth' assembled 'train. 
 Rise to refute the hero of the main. 
 
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 The British fleet are now upon the Nile, 
 
 Where Victory on Britannia bright did smile. 
 
 Yes, that great Nile, whose waters once were blood — 
 
 The mandate of a justly-angry God — 
 
 A second time its streams turn crimson dye, 
 
 Regardless of the black and frowning sky.* 
 
 Now Silence is hurled down, and wild Vproar 
 
 Is chief director on the sea and shore; 
 
 Both sides are eager for the fatal fray. 
 
 And soon begin the terrors of that day. 
 
 Now mighty Nelson hath attain'd his will, 
 
 The winds are hush'd, and Nature all is still ; 
 
 All their attention turned towards the shore, 
 
 Where France and Nelson's dreadful thunders roar. 
 
 Through tru^npets sound the order, " shorten sail," 
 
 And the broad coursesf rise before the gale ; 
 
 The boatswain's whistle echoes a repeat — 
 
 *' Take in top-hamper,''| sounds throughout the fleet. 
 
 The studding-sails^^ and royalsjl " stow'd away," 
 
 The guns " cast loose" to meet the coming fray ; 
 
 Cutlass and pikes are now in order placed — 
 
 The " boarding parties''^ muster in each waist;** 
 
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 *'• Regardless of the fkownimg sky," &c. Signifying that :he 
 flashes from the guns were so intense and vivid that the water 
 rcflucted that b!ond-coior "regardless of the dark sky." 
 
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 being unJerstnod as the foresail, mainsail, and mizen. 
 
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 fine weather. 
 
 II *' Royals." The royal-yord is the highest yard in a ship, 
 although there is a light sail sometimes set over it. 
 
 IT " Boarding parties." These are men chosen for that sangui- 
 nary work ; that is, as soon as the two vessels come in contact, 
 the Boarding Party at once throw themselves on board the enemy's 
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 rTTu'^- ^'r ^r*' »"'^ '« England true ' 
 
 To'l'P^U^^^^^^^ ""^l^^ «"d fire, 
 
 lo board the foe IS their whole soul's desire. 
 
 The British chief-his eye no^i glancine o'er 
 And kmdling brighter, nt the sullen riaf 
 
 IntJri'''*^ ^''°" °''* Neptune's dark domain. 
 But soon to crimson with the victims slain : 
 Upon his breast three golden stars do blaze 
 jbach one a column to the hero's praise : 
 " RlTr^K* ^'•/.'^hjf f-the Britons listening stand- 
 Remember, friends, our fate is sealed by land : 
 
 Our', !"'!£"•"'"' T^u""' ^^''« P""" ^ot»» ri e_ 
 Our s. to the ground-but their's up to the skies 
 
 Let us retrieve the loss. ,he heaps of slain- 
 
 And let us now retrieve it, on the main ; 
 
 1 he only hope we have, is here to fiirht 
 
 And here we'll conquer, or else die thi's niaht 
 
 Kemeniber, friends, our country's fate depends 
 
 Upon the seas, while Nelson's arm defend? 
 
 Let every soul, on this momentous day ' 
 
 His duty do— implicitly obey; 
 
 •• W^nT'^''"'''' »^"-Loud the cheers resound 
 
 NoTw , trTr^"'VV''r«'' '^' ^''' raogJound. 
 
 wu- ul . . T"®^®"''- 'ofty floating car. 
 
 Which held SIX hundred daring hearts for war 
 
 Behind the Vanguard-^enthusiastic flame ' 
 
 iMred each warrior with a thirst of fame- 
 
 Upon the poop* her tall commander stood- 
 
 Miller the brave, the fortunate, the good • 
 
 i be glittering gold, around his neck and 'breast 
 
 Made stiff the sea-blue cloth and richly colored ^est ■ 
 
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 The noble chieftaiD thus addressed his band- 
 " Ye brave defenders of our native land, 
 Remember, Justice strengthens every band ; 
 'Tis not for conquest, but defence, we fight, 
 And we will die, ere yield to foes our right. 
 And He, whose arm is mighty still to save, 
 Will help our arms, and braver make the brave ; 
 
 Still call on him — not built with hands his fane 
 
 Whose nostrils' breath could sweep us off the main." 
 With glowing hearts the Britons rush to war, 
 And soon their vivid lightnings stream afar. 
 
 How much depends on this all fatal night. 
 
 Where France and Albion tried their awful might ! 
 
 The Eastern lands of Britain were at stake, 
 
 And for the issue did Columbia quake ; 
 
 Her mighty ships of war lay on the tide. 
 
 Where enemies encompassed every side; 
 
 The land with Frenchmen swarms — the sea'i alive-^ 
 
 And who against this fortune dare to strive ? 
 
 Immortal Nelson dared the strengths of man, 
 
 When on the Ocean he had formed his plan ; 
 
 That was his field of fame — his soul's delight 
 
 Was to engage the foe in dreadful fight. 
 
 No hovering doubt about his mind now flies, 
 
 But firm assurance in his bosom lies. 
 
 The shock across the raging seas was hurled, 
 Until it shook the New, and Western World, 
 Where Slavery, and Freedom, both reside. 
 From the rough Cape, to great St. 'Lawrence' tide; 
 Where the intrepid Spaniard crossed the main, 
 Until the Western Indies bowed to Spain. 
 Ah ! see, the bleeding form of Freedom soars. 
 With gushing tears, above these Indian shores, 
 77 here Innocence, with Nature, proudly stood, 
 Survey'd the stream, the valley, and the wood ; 
 
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 There the wild chieftain felt hlmwlf supreme 
 When hunting by 8o.ne murmuring natire stream 
 
 5 /m"°"." V"'*^ ' '^'""' "° European's hZ 
 ^ad bias ed the sweet beauties of the land • 
 
 sil f«l '^ " "°'" ''''""Sh dole and mountain runa • 
 See feathery cocoas, waving in the gale ^ 
 
 And the dark cedar shades the fertile vale 
 Beneath whose foliage, and Italian skies. ' 
 1 he native Indian on Earth's carpet lies. 
 
 "Say memory, from whose unerring tongue"f 
 J he Bards gone by and present Bards have sun? 
 On every side, around the thundering fleet 
 What far.faroed lands and ancient countrie. meet i 
 OI N.ie, pure stream, where are thy Naiads flown? 
 Where are thy guardian Nymph, and I.i.gone? 
 O! River great, renowned in classic song 
 Whose waters gild the verdant plains aloS^ 
 Convuls'd wuh fear, the Crocodile has fled 
 From out thy waters, swollen with the dead f 
 Once. Cleopatra's barge did deck thy wave— 
 Thy waters worshipp'd, and a Queen thy slave. 
 
 O Alexandria ! rear thy towers high, 
 t or thy great namer but with fame can die I 
 Did he too stretch his arm. from Grecian fields. 
 1 hat far-famed Egypt to the conqueror yields ? 
 
 ThJ;.''! ? • ^rV"""' '*'''" *^""^ « monument 
 I nat Alexander here ODce reared his tent 
 
 A second Hero stands amongst that fleet 
 
 Whose name till now ne'er coupled with defeat- 
 
 Oh view on this great day that Corsicao, 
 
 1 hat m ighty.miuded, but small-bodied man 
 
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 And oroclo would that lie should rise 
 
 A (Irendful moii.irch— cruel, brave and «iie; 
 
 And so it came to pass ; that alien's nnine 
 
 Was soon to rank amongst the sons of fame. 
 
 The Alacedoniau warrior'tt type, this chief — 
 
 Whose warlike name spread conquest, joy and grief. 
 
 His mighty genius is not yet unfurled. 
 
 And unknown lives the man, who after ruled the world. 
 
 Hail, Nilus, Kgypi's everlasting fame — 
 I see thee now, emiiiinfj clouds of flame, 
 Thy bosom lorn with fleelB, wifh shells, and fire, 
 With Nelson's thunders, that the crews inspire— 
 The deafen^ig cheers, and many an ill-timed joke, 
 Of England's hearis encased, in hearts of oak ! 
 But long ere this the French had formed a plan 
 Whose strong dr*;;nce8 seemed too hard for man 
 For to subdue, or even venture near. 
 And from their bosoms cast away all fear — 
 For they had fortified the spacious bay. 
 While close in front the heavy shipping Jay. 
 But Nelson eyed them with a seaman's skill. 
 And gave the words again '* the sails to fill ;" 
 For, said the chief *' if all their ships can moor, 
 There's depths of water nearer still the shore." 
 The French aghast beheld the wondrous sight. 
 For they ne'er thought our chief would risk the fight ; 
 He onward rushed between their fles*. ond ibf^re — 
 Such fearless sk '' was never known Hscf.^ 
 
 Now from the end of England's inwara line, 
 On rolling smoke— the blazing nitre's shine — 
 The battle roars ; the English cheers resound. 
 The Ocean, maddened, ru^hes 'gainst the ground ; 
 And from the kelson to the lofty truck, 
 F"? :h ship of war is wholly lost in smoke. 
 Gould Pon»pey now this dreadful fight discern, 
 Nay, CO v. :, ihe mighty Julius burst the urn — 
 
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 rT****.^"""""' *"''""" warlike iiationa hurled 
 To liiroluUlosses, nnd defeni, and shame, 
 V 'Me distant nations tremhied at his name- 
 That learned, god-like. fiMirlees Roman star, 
 Whoae name was great in letters ns in war, 
 Whose soul then comprehended aria and mn'u, 
 Whose foot disdained the pailis that others ran; 
 Arise, thou Roman, whose small sword and shield 
 Made half the world, in terror, lo thee yield 
 Behold (O would thou could'st) the smokini Nile 
 Where Erebus and Mars alone do smile ! ' 
 
 Lo ! the tall rigging forms a mighty maze ! 
 Behold the waters, nil a flashing Naze • 
 See what tremendous sliips ! what thunder roars ' 
 How 1 is this battle to be ranked with yours? 
 Arise, and view from Alexandria's heijrht 
 The awful lightnings of the Nile's proud fight 
 Would'st thou not cry, great Ciesar. i„ «maze, 
 'The gods— not mortals— on the Nilus rage." 
 There thundering Nelson, on a throne of flame 
 And wings of victory, hurl'd Britannia's foes 
 10 everlasting shame. 
 
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 Reflections on War— Diffidence of the Author—Dreadful combat, 
 between the Flag Ship of Admiral Bruey's, and the Bellerophon ; 
 in which the latter is dismasted, and forced to withdraw out of 
 the line of fire— L'Orient ranges through the fleet— The Zealous, 
 Captain Hood, dismasts the " Guerriere"— The Goliab, Captain 
 Foley, takes the " Conquerant"— Captain Westcott, of the Ma- 
 jestic, killed— The Orion, Captain Sir J. Saumarez, sinks the 
 "Serieuse" frigate— The Vanguard, Nelson's ship, enters the 
 battle, and engages the •' Spartiate," on the one side, and the 
 " Agiolon" on the other— The Minotaur captures the latter, and 
 the Vanguard the former— List of the British Ships that fought 
 at the Nile— Nelson receives a wound in the head, at first 
 thought to be mortal.— The scene is the same— the time from 
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 Of Heroes, and none else, with Horner's lays — 
 
 What raging Demon first this order made, 
 
 Who through the crimson stream of blood might wade ? 
 
 'Twas thou, O Muse, first instituted laws. 
 
 And sung, in classic verse, the first great cause. 
 
 Elysian bowers thou formed and sung their praise, 
 
 Then the dark shades, in dread and awful lays. 
 
 But how, O Nine, could men that swam in blood, 
 
 And rose to heaven on the purple flood ? 
 
 The cruel hero, but to gain the prize 
 
 Of the Elysian fields, to slaughter flies 
 
 Without a cause — the innocent's retreat. 
 
 Must welter in their blood, beneath his feet — 
 
 Fires the hamlet, and the rustic slays, 
 
 Thara nn ih'ia />Ki/>r \a nAtni^nt'.^^i^ ..„.. 
 
 Thus towns, and countries, by him, run with bloody 
 He walks to glory on the purple flood. 
 

 1 hen blasts of triumph, hundred-tongued farne^ 
 With ill-earned laurels binds the victor's name. 
 What can withstand, when raging Ate incites— 
 When follow scenes in which scern Mars delighss? 
 When daring Diomed, by Pallas fired, 
 Struck Emilius, with execution tired, 
 And sent the immortal to the feet of Jove 
 
 To ask for vengeance, on Minerva's love 
 
 Yet soon again in battle Mars was found 
 Dealing his blows on all the Greeks around. 
 Through every age, and clime, the demon War 
 
 Drives his iron and his murdering car 
 
 When will the day arrive that he shall cease, 
 And rural beauties show the sweets of peace '? 
 Even thou Egypt— how oft thy slimy shore 
 Hath run with streams (like rain) of human gore ! 
 
 When Calliope sings, along my glowing veins 
 
 I feel the fire of the Muses' strains 
 
 O sacred nymph ! all passions wilt thou move- 
 Prepares the heart, for battle, or for love ; 
 With thrilling pleasure, dost thou chain the ear, 
 And lulled by thee, no foe, nor danger fear. 
 What sweet emotions melt the inspired soul 
 As Joy, and Ardour through the passions roli— 
 O heavenly maid ! this dreadful fight declare 
 In mournful strains, and with a mournful air. 
 When Virgil shone, with bright Apollo's beam, 
 He sung a boundless and exhaustless theme- 
 Fresh heroes, and new battle^chieftain's dreams, 
 JTheir councils, quarrels— and pellucid streams— 
 Great Ammon's charges to th' immortal train— 
 And Isis, guardian of great Hector slain— 
 A mighty maze, a vast expanse for song, 
 
 Which likn a rivor iavao •(.» ^t^:,. »l . 
 
 But I, bewildered, in a labyrinth lost, 
 
 With false impressions and false numbers tost— 
 
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 Who rdshes heedless, soonest leaven the way 
 I, onward plunging, lost the guiding ray— 
 1 18 not for me to draw the briny tear 
 As Falconer, name to Muses ever dear— 
 Nor deal in grandest Milton's awful paire. 
 1 he mysteries of an ancient bycone affe-1 
 Nor yet as Shakspeare, Nature's great delight 
 To paint Troilus' love or Ajax' fiiht- ^ ' 
 
 Not one alone-but he the whole possessed- 
 Rn^ "^ n ?r"S '" Shakspeare's tuneful breast. 
 But daring Calliope's mine-to fire the lay 
 And rouse the stagnant blood, in Egypt's bay. 
 Then Britons rise, awake, to conquest go 
 And to the shades hurl your ensanguine fie- 
 Nelson thou sleepest-rise and be again 
 What thoii was wont, the sovereign of the main. 
 
 Now, Calliope, assist me with this theme. 
 Make bright each line with great AppoHo's beam. 
 O! now again behold the scene sublime 
 Iranscending naval fights of every clime. 
 Now had L'Orient. which the Admiral bore 
 Been fiercely fighting with a seventy-four. 
 One hundred guns the Orient's decks contain 
 And with a crew of twice five hundred men ; 
 1 he Bellerophon on her quane-* lies 
 Equals in courage what they lose in size 
 1 he British captain— no inspiring sounds' 
 Nought but his orders, through the ship resounds 
 1 he seamen— steady, ttaunch, on hope relies 
 Nor view with terror their inferior size— ' 
 "For," say the Britons, " 'Tis with French we fight. 
 Nor can they stand before a Nelson's might." 
 Britannia nerves them, with a firm desire 
 Never to flinch, but still maintain the fire— 
 
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 While desperate courage, and the guillotine 
 I; what inspires the criws of the French Hn« 
 Nearly «„ hour did these ships con enS- 
 Wh.le Briti^^h shot the Orient's rTgTntT^nd • 
 
 With ih« H^''^''""« ''''^' ^he mfz^en^u"^' 
 vvth the huge mainmast o'er the bulwarks fall 
 
 No '^ P'l' "i'.'^' ^'^•^ '°P«« descend. ' 
 
 Under the weight of all this towering wreck 
 
 lT:.l:t,l'T « ""-^'^^^ corpsf oTdfck. 
 The crew !l' '°'"'"^"*^'»ff. f'-ora his chief- 
 •is th/?nTl . '"^"Vf «*' •" «''«nt grief: 
 pfi ^- *°"'^''' ^''^' 'ool^ed o'er Ilium's nlain 
 Pell crashing, on the living and the suTn ^ 
 
 P^Il ! V" '""'\' ^^ '^''' Srf^^' ship of war 
 Fall l.ke an avalanche on the sable car 
 1 he Bellerophon motionless doth lie 
 
 Nowt lU ?r'>^t '"*^ ^'' ""^''^^ ^''^ not fly. 
 Now falls the first Lieutenant. Savage brave 
 
 Nnw'Ih' ' K-'^A^" *^™^ •» Ni'us' wfve ' 
 m^ !f ^'^^^''Pt^in. to the chagrined band 
 '^MvfrLnd" > "°g«^'°"'^d the cannon standi 
 My friends 'gainst fate to rush is all in vain 
 
 lTfu'\ ^^^ ''" ""'y ^he victory gain" "' 
 
 Thi ?t ^iT""' **" '^'^ deck wSuW die 
 Than see the Bellerophon turn and fly 
 
 The Bellerophon from the line withdrew- 
 
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 Th- «""V"" «^«"us ano uie liauiian Joe 
 
 ?he hZ ;rn""' *^' r'PP^*'^ -''•P doTh tow. 
 •Th! «.if. r ^i"'"* ^S^'" '•'"'d the throng- 
 The echo from her guns doth boom along •^' 
 
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 Upon her deck walk the French Admiral, 
 
 Unconscious that his ship was doomed to fall. 
 
 Like some fierce Giant through a Pigmy crowd, 
 
 Rushes along, in strength and greatness proud. 
 
 Tramps down opposers, hurls them round and round, 
 
 Dashes aside, or crushes to the ground ; 
 
 So did this mighty ship sail through the fleet. 
 
 In vain she tried an equal Joe to meet — 
 
 But dire was her fate — it was at hand. 
 
 Nor was she doomed to touch her native land. 
 
 Now daring Hood, the Zealous' nerve and bone, 
 The " GuerriereV tall rigging had huri'd down — 
 Death-like she lay, that moved of late in pride — 
 The Zealots' prize, Iny conquered on the tide. 
 The "Conquerant," one of the enemy's line, 
 Now, without masts, lies on the heaving brine ; 
 The shot and shells, from the Goliah's side, 
 Laid low their rigging, and, with it, their pride. 
 Thus two large ships, already Britons' rights. 
 Though scarce ten minutes* had been pass'd in fight ; 
 And Captain Foley was her chieftain brave, 
 "Whose hand was strong in fight, yet mild to save. 
 He ruled ti tall Goliah, on this night, 
 When France and Britain raged in dreadful fight. 
 The flaming Orion in the vanward glows, 
 And " La Serieuse" down to the bottom ^oes ; 
 Proud Saumarez (her chief,) the "Serieuse" eyed — 
 The proud commander yawed his vessel's side, 
 
 * In the 3d line, page 27, are tlio words " nearly an hour did 
 these ships contend"— then afterwards, "the scene ten minutes 
 had been passed," <tc. Kow this wjll be attributed to the author, 
 as an error; but it is one which cannot be rectified, although it 
 might be placed a lew pages back ; for by the Bellerophon's log. 
 
 book it was nine o'clock when she withdrew out of the line 
 
 thouffh by James Clarke and McAiifhen and :he V.in''!!5!rd's In? 
 it was but eight o'clock ; so that by the fiellernphon^s log-book,' 
 they did contend an hour. 
 
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 ihon's log' 
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 A flood of fire he on (he frigate pours, 
 And down she sinks beneutli \ho Orion's roars ■ 
 Then rushing on between the " Souverain," 
 He thunders on the "Franklin' shot and flamo, 
 Receives the fire from both these ships of war— 
 Britf inia nerved him, and his flag streamed far. 
 The " Franklin" bears, at her tall mainmast's pole 
 Rear-Admiral Blanqnet's Hug (which fleets control). 
 The British ship Defence, no.v on her side 
 Lets death and wounds on every bullet ride. 
 
 Then Westcott, in tlie stern Majestic came. 
 
 And pours on the " Hereux" destructive sheets of flame. 
 
 Then Westcott thus unto his noble crew 
 
 " Brave hearts of oak, to Britain ever true, 
 We'll dash into the line — this seventy-four' 
 We'll sink by you, under our cannon's roar." 
 The tars huzza'd — with sinews firm as steel. 
 With hearts resolved to make the " Monsieur" fee! 
 Britannia's metal, and her seamen's skill — 
 And to their work they went, with right good will. 
 
 And now the rolling Vanguard, Nelson's car, 
 Bearing this son of ocean to the war. 
 Amid the thro»jg, under all sails advance. 
 To choose the bravest, of the fleets of France ; 
 Six ensigns stream'd from the cloud-piercing masts 
 And lurid flashes on the night he casts ; ' 
 
 Then rushing on the " Sparliate's" larboard bow, 
 Clews up the sails, and rears her towering prow. ' 
 The huge " Aquilon" on his quarter runs, 
 Discharging in the Vanguard all her guns. 
 Upon his starboard doth the " Spartiate" rage, 
 And now he doth the other ship engage \ 
 He thunders from each side—the waters'shake, 
 xi.nu the far-disiaiii shores with terror quake ; 
 Then Nelson in his glory joyful fights, 
 Defending Freedom's and Great Britain's rights. 
 
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 But, ranging ep, ihe lofty Minotaur 
 
 ' .. the " Aquilon" her fierce broadeides pour— 
 
 l.ewi8, her master, eager for the fight 
 
 And proud to show his skill in Nelson's siaht • 
 
 After -x struggle, dreadful and severe ' 
 
 rhey .trike* their streamers, all convulsed with fear. 
 
 The Alexander, on the fleet's lee beam 
 Now takes a part in this momentous scene : 
 
 T^'a l.rf' '". i*** Swiftsure, sails amain 
 To dash the flag of France, ami laurels gain • 
 Twas now so dark, that dread disasters rose,' 
 Nor Hollowell discover where his foes : 
 1 he crippled Bellerophon lay alone 
 
 Tltl'S^u^^^'u^^" 1"* ^P^J^'ing meteor shone; 
 
 1 ben Hollowell, zealous for Britannia's fame 
 
 Thought not to let escape one Gaulian name': 
 A dire mistake-prepares his guns to send 
 
 1 he Bellerophon to a dismal end j 
 A circumstance prolongued her to the world— 
 Nelson had said, " Fire not, with sails unfarled."f 
 The Swifture anchored, in the leeward line 
 And soon her cannons thundered o'er the brine: 
 Not so the lofty " Franklin"-o'er the deck 
 Her foremast falls, a tangled mass of wreck • 
 Un board the Bellerophon— now no more ' 
 But lying lifeless, in his streaming gore 
 Brave Joliiflfe, torn by a murderous shel'l— 
 Making the third Lieutenant that had fell. 
 
 Now to the fight sails the remaining bark— 
 Nor could the crew distincuish. in the dnrt 
 
 stinguish, in the dark, 
 
 ing Iwn U.e coTorl' " ' "'' ^"^ ^'«"'''>'"« *° """""'J". «' '-«!- 
 
 + iw_i 
 
 fl«.t Ifjff i""*" I"-''" °^^^^^ '''•^ °°* * g"n should b« fired till thn 
 
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 Which friead or foe-but ihat each Briton bare 
 Four lanterns at the peak, Mrhose vapoury glare 
 
 Ihe small Leander-fifty guns she reared- 
 Thomson. her chief, who Nelson's counsels shared ; 
 When to the scene she rushed, four ships of Gaul 
 10 Untish valour had been forced to fall. 
 
 And now that every British ship's engaged. 
 
 I wllf r'^'r'* ^"«''°^'^ ^^''°^«' ^4 «nraged- 
 l will detail the names of Nelson's fleet 
 
 {A name who never knew what meant defeat.) 
 
 The Vanguard first, and the tall Orion, 
 
 /wt K 'TV"'^ the stern Bellerophon, 
 
 ff M^'''"'^ ^t"-''^' "L'Orient," immense.) 
 
 The Minotaur, Leander. and Defence, 
 
 1 he Theseus, and Culloden, (but the last. 
 
 During the battle, on a shoal was fast) : 
 
 And the Audacious, bold as her name implies; 
 
 'Pu ,^'"^»^er, too, on Nilus lies ; 
 
 J. he Zealous who from foes did ne'er retreat. 
 
 Oohah, and Majestic, ends the fleet. 
 
 Brave Nelson, who had thundered death around. 
 Sad to relate, receives a fearful wound : 
 A langridge shot the hero's temples tear. 
 
 ThJu !. fl*^^ ^i:*"^' *'''" ^° ^^^ cockpit bear; 
 The blood flows clotted, and the pulse Ihrobs fast. 
 And all the crejv believe each throb the last. 
 The mighty Nelson, knowing that his end 
 VKas ftst approaching, now sends for his friend. 
 
 wnn^'H^'u""" ^ ^'V^ chief-Lewis his name- 
 Who had that day been dealing death and flame. 
 
 Rri?'il°^^°^") ('"^^ Berry takes command- 
 
 .„ ,g urjions Know another hand. 
 As the tall bark, that through the waters flies. 
 While on each side pellucid mountains rise. 
 
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 Pressed on her lee, through the white waste she gl-des, 
 
 A well-tried veteran at her helm guides 
 
 Thus smooth she skims along, mountains behind, 
 '• Bearing away," or " luffing" to the wind ; 
 But place a novice ai the dangerous post, 
 And soon 'mong billows will the bark be tost, 
 Soon will the seas dash over bows and siJe 
 And then perhaps the mast will kiss the tide; 
 No "spilling" i)f the snils, broadside she lies^ 
 And every wave high o'er the vessel flies. 
 
 Now Lewis comes on board, to see his friend 
 And take one Inst farewell, before his end. 
 ••Ah! Nelson," said the chief, "thy end is near^ 
 But thy great soul despised the pale-faced fear ; 
 * Here,' have I heard thee say, • here would I die— 
 From the wet decks, would Nelson's spirit fly !' 
 And here, the decks are wet with gore and blood. 
 And there, a conquered fleet lies on the flood. 
 Thy soul, immortal chief, to death must yield— 
 The Eastern main is Nelson's battle-field: 
 O ! how I envy such a name as thine, 
 Great chief, whose name shall be almost divine," 
 Thus Lewis said ; and thus the chief replies, 
 
 While the fire glistens from his martial eyes 
 
 " Yes, Lewis, it is so, I die with joy, 
 Nor even death can my great fame destroy ; 
 There conquered lies the half of that proud fleets 
 That held, last morning, Egypt at its fefet." 
 But, ah ! what pen can write the joy thaj flew 
 Among the Vanguard's hardy, daring crew ; 
 And every Briton, as with one loud voice, 
 Thank'd Heaven for Nelson— as they did rejoice, 
 Their shouts of joy did to the shore resound ; 
 For when the surgeon came to view the wound, 
 (Reader, dou'i Biari, so late the surgeon came. 
 This only adds to laurelled Nelson's name, 
 
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 uZ m'*".'i' '•*»'»'<*«* «»«• w staunolrihfcfelodd.i 
 No!' uni tb«chi«f, '' go *here you will «o6d/ 
 When »jr turmcomM, tb«A joa nra-y vien? my heatfi 
 By then I do expect to slamt^er ^ithi the de«(J.'^) ■ 
 But different was the case— the wound was small 
 Wor through the head had pass'd the fatal ball ; ' 
 Britannia's son once more renew'd the strife, 
 And many u sailor now resigned his life. 
 
 Anxious and trembling on the distant shore, 
 
 iru " ^Yr". "'S^ stunned by battle's deafening roar. 
 
 'vhere Nilus rolls his tributary wave 
 
 To what was ocean unce, but now a grave— 
 
 1 here on its banks th.- Gallic soldiers gaze, 
 
 Their eyes directed by the cannons' blaze, 
 
 Certam, almost, their fleet was crushed below 
 
 The foot of Nelson, their detested foe ; 
 
 Unwilling to believe, what was loo plain, 
 
 1 hey onre more see their ruin on the main ; 
 
 With sullen silence, and despair, they leave ' 
 
 The banks of Nile, while for their fleet they grieve : 
 
 Kemote, dejected, melancholy, slow," 
 Back to the town of Alexandria go. ' 
 But now no mor.e to follow these my theme— 
 Alone ,t sings of Nile's meandering stream ; 
 Alike their conquests and defeats remain, 
 Some other Muse must sing the fiery strain. 
 
 All the French Marschal's plans by sea now fail 
 For soon he heard the dread and direful tale ■ ' 
 "1 care not!" said the warrior, "let it be I ' 
 France iiever can match England on the sea • 
 Bat I will fierce destruction nn them "onr ' 
 Loud as the crater of high Etna's roar ; ' 
 
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 If I do not these Britons extirpate*— 
 And not a sigh of pity mourn their fate ; 
 Their aea-gin Isle ahali fall before this hand • 
 1 for an equal battle, on the Land !" * 
 
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THE BATTLE OP THE NILE. 
 
 CANTO IV. 
 
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 "^iLTnS?*'**)?" "rf.*''^ °'"''""' «"'' «he rail of Admiral BrulvB 
 that ship and a sbort cewation of the combat-YXTcl™ 
 
 'tTu^" ''•8?t«-Admiral Villeneuve flies, in the "Gumauma 
 7hl Lr^^ " ^T'^tt ^yj^^ Zealou«_He escape,, aloni S 
 the "Genereui"_Tho Battle ends-List of the' ki led on .h. 
 tll't ""'t-Ne'-on's glory-The rejoicing aidmou'rniSit Jo 
 England, on the news of the Battle. Time, from 9 oXk pf M 
 till the morriing ot the next day. .'"»"«'*' «'a9ffir^ M- 
 
 
 O ! now agaiti behold the scene sublime 
 Transcending naval fights ip every crime: - 
 
 The ' Franklin.' " Tonnant." and " Heureux" reiriifdr 
 
 Bravely these strive their fortunes to regain 
 
 And chunge the fate of battle-but in vain: 
 
 A I ^^""^f'ng cannons' loud, tremfenJous roar. 
 
 And vivid flashes lights the neighboring shore • 
 
 Nature's convulsed— while dire havoclies ' 
 
 And many a hero in the turmoil dies^ ' 
 
 The tars of England vievy their comrades fall. 
 
 Which nerves them more to crush the sons of Qt^l 
 
 Ihe heaps of slam disarms the French's power—''' ' 
 
 1 hey crouch beneath the tempest's iron showef^i.^' ' 
 
 liyen strike their colors to superior skill, 
 
 Or strive in vain their tattered sails to fill • '^" ^'•^'^' 
 
 In nois« they struggle—but it will not do '*^''"^^'^^' 
 
 nrhair tuki><.l .___. . 1-... . ' i-'. ti!»« *«'/ 
 
 ^,„,-,.,vprs3cvcrca ana ine braces* too." ~ 4. 
 
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 Ropes leading frifti the end of eicli SSJ^I 
 he vards are kept even, or "braced fairly.". 
 
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 S«e! now.aiiqaoke ill r9Uiag vgUiHie» rw«^ 
 And shuts L'Orienl from ten thousand eyes ; 
 O ! awful fate— the gallant ship's on fire ! 
 (Now ail the high-born hopes of Fnince expire.) 
 What pen shall write the lerrorn of this sight, 
 Or who describe the waving; sheet of light ! 
 Calm had it been, no winds disturbed the buy— 
 Night though it was, the sky npfmed light an day : 
 A rolling sea of fire alone appeared, 
 . Tb Meareii's blue vsull the flaming brands are reared ■ 
 
 ' It ^uns along the masiS — they are a-fire ' 
 
 ;'3if«J fey^ry Ihsidiit ii:ill the flame bursts higher. 
 
 The towering mass of rigging now perforins 
 o.rhe sun d Iwl ofiico, rearing hideous forms. ,« • 
 " The firev li^e serpents, up the cordage runfci > 
 WWle fail bftfow i.i heard the bobfning guns- 
 Will Illium's sacred walls with this compare, 
 A fire alone, on water, and on air? 
 When dread 'fefijVius poured liis lava flood. 
 And 'neath his rage ill *faled t^oinpeii stood, 
 gS^gh a^i'/ijt 8)>ea|t» of flamb did not ascend 
 
 unto the crescent of (he lieaircn's bend ' ' 
 
 Nor c^uldtlietjlrecian fleets, if fired by l*r'6^,V 
 
 Nelson's Joy.' 
 
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 Give Priath gjreateri than was 
 
 The pdlislie^ decks thiil lately bote a forriJ, 
 Now crashing,' sink amidst the raging stofm— 
 The bolt^ red-hot withdraw, the orik plauksrend, 
 The tjil^ masts totter and like rushes bfend, 
 The massive planks with thrilling crash giv6 way, 
 And the aspiring flames turns night to day. 
 Yet though the ship was all a sheet of flartie. 
 Still her great; riiler kejit his naiiie from brarAe— 
 'Mid falling spars atid ropes and bbiilng i6r — 
 Yet still his flag, above ail these, stfeamW fi^r. 
 The Swjftaure on his weather.t hurled i shower 
 I Q|^/i|}o^,and sliells, forced by a deadly power— 
 
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 The Alexinder uu his larboard, pourx 
 Dealh. und aid carnage, in terrific loura. 
 
 At length (sad to relate, the inoumful fail ,/. 
 
 *JI that intrepid and brave admiral) 
 A niurdeioua shot the noble chieltai,, fonnd. 
 And down he sank, gaahed w.th a horrid wound. 
 1 lirice wa* he ahot before, and ihricc he stood 
 And rather save his honor than his blood. 
 
 Pell'hrnl^'T^'' '^'"'"^' ^^" ^y '"» clueftain'sside. 
 Fell brave B.anca, (saves his fame) and died. 
 
 Some friendly arm the chiefiani, dead, coHvejed 
 Down from the deck u.to the cockp.t's shade . 
 Now struck w ah awe. the loud nproar subsides. 
 And every eye towards the Orient glides 
 A joylul bonfire to Britannia's sons— * 
 ••Rejoice, great Nelson," cries her booming guns. 
 But every ship, whether hostile or a friend 
 Unto her crew their whole assistance lend.' ...... ., 
 
 In kindness' cause Britannia's s.)ns are fouiirf;- ' ■■''' 
 
 (Not held-by duty, but by honour bound) 
 
 1 o be as forward in dark danger's way 
 
 And save those foes that vengeance taught them slay.' 
 
 A score of boats around the Orient meet 
 
 lleturning ladened to the silenced fleet. ' 
 
 How shall I sing the fate of that bright «,r. 
 I he Captttn'e son,* (,«n of the God of War) 
 J hat dauntless youth upon the deck still BimL 
 .Vhere painted spars are changed to fiery brand.- 
 
 uny of them. concbl^l^hL'" L^^^ttl ".°*.r'.?8 ^^? «>«''" in' 
 
 iherefore refused to quit" the shipunTiV he wis ordlr«^ ?«*rf'"' ■*"* 
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 Death showed his terrors in a blazing storm. 
 
 Jiui foul dishonour reared a blacker form— 
 
 1 hough jroun^ in years and life her beauties spread 
 
 And raging ^tna thundered o'er his head 
 
 1 he refuge too remained, where he- might flv 
 
 And leave his sire in flames, perhaps to die-1 
 
 He knew not (godlike youth) his father's head 
 
 Was stiff and cold among the heaps of dead 
 
 So thus immortal /Eneas from Troy's fire 
 
 On his wide shoulders bore his aged sire ; 
 
 But then Anchises was a living weight, ' . ! 
 
 While brave Bianca met his mournful fate. 
 
 bull on the deck stands his intrepid son, 
 
 Nor the most dreadful torments would he shun— 
 
 His post h, would not quit, the flames rolled on. 
 
 He cried. My father, may I yet be gone ; 
 
 One boat awaits me, and the fire is great. - 
 
 bay shall I hasten, ere it be too late." 
 No answer got the youth, but crashing spars 
 And Joud rejoicings from the British tars. 
 
 Smile oh this youth, thou fickle goddess, Fame 
 As Nelson wrote of his immortal name— ' ' 
 He stamped "P,/' Nelson," in his foeman's bloods 
 He thundered, " Nelson," off St. Vincent's flood 
 
 Ne^on and Bronte," resounded through all Soain 
 And Teneriffe, his pillar in the main- ^ ^ ' 
 And death, and vengeance at his conquering side 
 Dashed France's hopes, upon the Nilus' tide— * 
 And dre«d Bellona, caused her that his name 
 Should rise, a pillar in the " house of Fame ' 
 But let 8 trumpet swell lo pathos mild, 
 A«d sing the praises of that noble child. 
 He held tii« post allotted by his sire 
 De^jjite jfshot, the ocean, and the fire- 
 Ana, whienlihe fast and tardv boat Imd «»"«- 
 f U lathe^ Ji,^Y^ J pow my duty don»"— " 
 
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 A thunder-blast, a victory-boding cry— 
 
 A stream of flame, that lit the blackened sky- 
 Was all that answered that true son of Fame, a 
 Whose praise shall live as long as Nelson's name. M 
 
 That roar of thunder shook the ocean round 
 
 Convulsed with earthquakes was the trembling ground 
 A death-hke stillness, to this blast, succeeds! 
 And Nelson's feeling heart, fur the doom'd wretches 
 * or full three minutes silence but prevailed, [bleeds , 
 Down horror-stricken were the crews fast nailed— 
 High in the air the blazing fragments ride, ^ 
 
 JLike fierce, portentous meteors, down they elide \ 
 Then, with a sullen splash, they hiss among the tide. / 
 
 But soon, pale horror left each Gauiic face 
 And dire revenge, glowed in the vacant place : 
 1 he dreadful combat is again renewed. 
 And thousands more die in the deadful feud. 
 Th! H "Guillaume Tell." and "Genereux." 
 The swift " Mercule," and sable " Le Hereux.'' 
 Feebly, now try the battle to maintain. 
 And strive with England's hero of the main. 
 1 he conflict now its crisis has attained, 
 *or in the van a certain victory's gained— 
 Four of their haughty fleet, no colours shew 
 But Albion s streamers, and their flags beiow 
 With ecstasy our sailors ca^t a glance 
 At the red ensigns, o'er the flags of France— • ,,f 
 That proudly wave, above the blood-stained bay. 'W 
 And plainly lell that Britons won the day. ,n 
 
 Four others of the foe beheld the fate -,4,..i' 
 Of their van ships, which fury did crdaft 
 
 Th^h 'T? T'* ""'•'F« »«««» roused, again, 
 They hoped by desperation still to reign 
 ^oras oi the iiay— but truitless was their skill 
 Britannia ruled— and rules the ocean still ' 
 
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 The Swifisure, and Leander, had subdued 
 The " Franklin"-and the " Tonnanl" was purs«ed. 
 1 hen like a knight, in brazen armor bound. 
 High on a steed, whose feet disdained the ffrouod 
 Rushed the tall Theseus, fiercely to the fight, 
 Her cannon roaring—nitre flashing light— 
 Upon the large " Titnoleon" Millar runs, 
 Discharging, all at once, his larboard sung— 
 •• L'Artemise" upon his larboard lies, 
 While from her sides a stream of fire flies, 
 The iron shower rakes the Theseua full ' u 
 
 Upon the bowsprit, and the sable hull; ■'"' 
 
 No sooner had the metal left the guiit, 
 When the French bnnner, d^trn the halliard runs— 
 Down 'nenih the deck a latent fire glows, 
 And to the shore her crew, midst darkness, goes 
 The treacherous chief, Estandlet— craren slavo— h 
 No more a warrior, a designing knave— C 
 
 Disgraced the sireamer, he was bound to save— I 
 Prepared it plot to give the English boat, IT 
 
 A cruise 'midst burning spars, on air to float- 
 Heaven willed not so, his ship to atoms blew, . i 
 Ere, from the Theseus, sailed the boardhig ct«W jJ A 
 But stamps with infamy the ehieftai«'B name— 
 His deep laid |»tot proved bis eternal shame— 
 
 Then, only then, France saw the battle woOj 
 And Albion's star, Ukethe meridian suoy ' •' *" 
 In the asMndatit, towering o'er the Gaol 
 Who always on the main was doomed to Vail. 
 One hour's more fierce fighting, brought a ray ! 
 From Phoebus' chariot, sovereign oltbe day > o'i 
 O ! what a sight did Scil's bright be««iB expose !» ^O 
 High heaps on heaps of IVieiids, imI pilea of few, 
 The bodies choking op Nile's rolling flood, . sdT 
 
 
 

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 Ere this the leader of thti Gallic fleets 
 Proud ^illeneuve—thought proper to retreat 
 And when Apollo's bow disp^ellfd the darL 
 * ar in the offing was his shattered bark • * 
 With terror all convnlsed he fled the fight 
 
 Th° Tft !f^«P'°ff' f"«»-ed by the night. ' 
 The ofty "Genereux" had also fled. 
 
 tL R V V"?- *•> ?'''*^"« ^««P •" dread. 
 The British chief, then, did the Zealous send, 
 To give the past night's work a fearful end • 
 But Faie preserved them, and they got away 
 ThZ°^ fi^t^nnia's flag supreme 'o'lr all the bay. 
 These were the only two that scaped the hand ^ 
 ni^ °fr' ?"** h»« g'orious British band ; 
 But dreadful was the price-eight hundred fell 
 
 ?L^ ?'V»'^ ^T""'^ '^^ °<'e«"'s swell. 
 The gallant Bellerophon's loss was great- 
 Three brave LieutenanM, all had met their fate • 
 
 T^o k'^""/""":^**"^-"*"* «»<J fo^y dead- ' 
 
 Two hundred in thrt ship this night had bled 
 
 The noble chief of the ftlfijestic died. 
 
 Two hundred of bis crew fell by his side 
 
 Some gashed with wounds, and three and forty slain 
 
 Taddy, and Taylor, in the Vartguard died, 
 
 Rr«tf "S ' "^^^ ° *"■ ^^^ "^'diers did preside j 
 Brave Seymour too, and thirty Britins more 
 Resigned their hves. lay weltering in their gore • 
 And on that dread and memorable night, ^ ' 
 Two hundred British sailors died in fight • 
 Six hundred more, sore wounded, groaning lay 
 Upon the decks, on that momentous day • ^ 
 But thirteen of the proudest ships of Gaal, 
 Had iell befoi^e Britannia's brazen wf jr 
 
 The battle hushed, the work of death is o'er • 
 But view the deck besmeared with human go^e ! 
 
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 In dire confusion, dead and dying lay, 
 Brisk on the eve, but now mute lumps of clay. 
 The hardy tars, whose valou- just before 
 Nought could subdue, alas ! are now no more 
 S?.?.®..^^®®^ *°'' "messmates, dear and ever true. 
 With bursting soba ihey bid the last adieu ; 
 Some others to their groaning comrades haste 
 And genlly raise them by the throbbing waist ' 
 Than to the cockpit sure and slow descend, ' 
 Jrying "Dearest doctor, help my dying Iriend." 
 But oft It happens, with increasing pain. 
 The messmate's dead—and back he goes again • 
 1 hen lays bim out with every pious care ; 
 Had he a wife T then cuts a lock of hair.' 
 "To her I'B bear it, and to her relate 
 .Her slain and ever-gallant warrior's fate." 
 
 The fight is o'er, and France's navy crushed 
 Beneath the victor, not with victory flushed ! 
 Nelson has stamped Britannia's name so great, 
 1 hat the tremendous sea supports her state 
 O ! what would have befell the Indies all/ . 
 By land and main ? certain had been their fall 
 They must have fall'n, and England's power there 
 France would have crush'd-but this was Nelson's care 
 He gained for Albion the greatest naval fight 
 That ever blackened day, or lit up night ; ' 
 His matchless vig'lance found the foe at last 
 And, when once found, he with a deadly blast 
 Blew France to ruin— no rennant might declare 
 J hat e er a Gaulian bark frequented there. 
 
 [Trafalgar's glories, never can I sing, 
 A Homer through an Ilium should them sintr. 
 When, with his fleet, he to the Indies flew— 
 «v=iii as the reindeer, did the foe pursue— 
 Ihe craven foe, who with a mighty host, 
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 But Nelsorj's mind'a repose was never hushed, 
 Until once more he Gaullia'a navies crushed ;* 
 And he did crush, and scatter on the flood-—* 
 But sealed the mighty conquest with his blood. 
 He, with his Britons, on Trafalgar's coasts, 
 Tofe into atoms the opposing hosts- 
 Sunk, and destroyed— and once more France's pride 
 Lay in destruction on th' Atlantic's tide. 
 He Britain's foss from off the waters hurled. 
 And St George's Cross again ruled o'er 'the watery 
 Let laurels and the cypress be allied, [worfd 
 
 For Nelson conquered, and the hero died ; 
 His lightnings bright eclipsed the noon-day sun 
 And what his thunders hath for Britain won ' 
 O ! Gaullia, tremble ! bow thy proud neck, Spain • 
 For mighty Nelson's spirit rules the main !] 
 
 How many souls did death this day defy ! 
 "Yet 'tis a dread and awful thing to die." • 
 ■Though, when the blood is raging at each vein 
 And God, nor Reason, can the hand restrain-' 
 When the hot choler chokes, and vengeance calls- 
 fear IS thrust down, and grim Death's terror faUs • 
 Lach sense is banished from fair Reason's throne 
 And 'Death or Conquest" is the last faint groan.' 
 
 How many widows shall deplore this day» 
 How many more shali curse the blood-dy'd bay 
 Where Nelson struck the dread, tremendous bl'ow 
 And swept away a brave and mighty foe ! ' 
 
 How many orphans shall in England cry, 
 "Britannia won, for which my sire did die !" 
 Her lights shall blaze, her trumpets loudly tell 
 How noble Nelson conquer'd, and her foemen fell ■ 
 ^Rejoice !" shall shout her crowds— her guns shall roar 
 rne i->iile » great victory, to the furthest shore. 
 
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 Thy name shall be pronounced by erery tontrue • 
 In every language shall thy praise be sung; 
 JEach Muse of Jfarae a trump of gold shall sound, 
 1 hat thy firreat name shall to the heavens resound: 
 Ihv deeds shall yet be sung in climes unknown. 
 And .n 'Fame's Temple," sit by Ammon's throne ; 
 Ihy mighty actions unborn sires ahull tell 
 How glorious was the Nile— thou Nelson fell ! 
 
 England once more is sovereign of the main. 
 Where Nelson's mighty arm her rights maintain • 
 His streamers w^ve from Nilus' slimy shore. ' 
 lo Denmark and Iberia— ^trean^ing o'er. 
 
 Now what remains of England's band, prepare 
 1 heir ships,* and hard-earned prizes, to repair ; 
 Ihe thmeen ships of France are all secured 
 1 hose haviflg anchors being safely moored : 
 And all destroyed of |hat vain, boastfql fleat, 
 A d?y bqfor^ held Egypt at its feet. 
 
 Now, Nile, adieu ! apd solemn land, farewell ! 
 l}m^ mpmmnml pile, inhere Gaullia fell ! . 
 
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 BY W. C. McKINNON. 
 
 WRITTEN DURING THE WINTER OF 
 
 1843. 
 
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 Bot tl.. ftlln rulB. of .ootJler'. WL,^ ,,; 
 
 Drive from my fcreait the wretched lu.fofS.i2^^'' 
 Unblem..hed let me live, or die unknoVn f 
 
 «'■"«"»• fcioeiit feme, or |tkm Are B*hifa.iio*4.>'''6n 
 
 "She biowe not b«th witltth* eam*.»i|i4. , ' l , * "j1 
 But one before, and ouebehiST^*^;''' ""^/'.^ '^"^"^ 
 And therefore modern »ulhorrneme ' "'"^ ,'in(iif/ai/. 
 
 The mighty mother' wilWliliisi: Wliiy<i '-^^'^*' '^'*^' 
 Jle through the mazes of the h^rt/s dlad-p-> "' " '^^"^^ 
 Whow inallow praise the.Afdn MiiAitUn' '"^'t«'»'^ 
 The fame of warriors, ahd of'tvriihi ^^.l-^ ''^'w ^•)U.'i 
 
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 Then, goddess BkMH ofbalM «»i Ht^ lotaMfTiig lyre, ' 
 And loud, and fierce, thy dreed tumultuous fire ; 
 When but a nation's voice ihy trumpet was, 
 Ere Jove> ninft tuneful danghtera took Ita plniT-r 
 Long ere an Alexander wore a crown, '.'*"" 
 
 Or Indus' k\ng;hh inMlipos hurled down, hnA " 
 
 Thy hundred tongue* made knowit^ a ehiertain'»*iiii)f 
 Ere Honi«k<'WOiy Mt own immoriit f^ine. ' n' 
 
 Back 4.^.M.e niifiliO^^f .^^ ii;d^;iU tW (iii if:^ 
 Far o'er each nation, doth the goddess reign ; • 
 She rears her broken iaddsr, to the skies '"i*! " 
 Ambition, called — e'en shgea tO' it fli'eMi.^^ "" ""' 
 L'*M4^'de"P«l?<in.e. higli a( the lop ^olt tiiiid. 
 Seen by all, tribes, and by each distant land— 
 And every ^fdt.znd ev^y spul belptv. , ^ .. 
 
 Doth, more or, (ess,, upon thjs Iaddei-\i0— ' ''-'"' '^l 
 Charmed wHli melod/'ortl.e Mpses iSys?'' "■ l'"^'^* 'i^. 
 Filled with ihe foul, and wr^ched lust of pr«i!^4\""'n. 
 High over th^.,|he towefi^g structure layf' ^^''^ :''}], 
 Far. steep. .|itf i;Jpp„jr. ^as thi. much^rod^^^i :"* !? 
 There on the ear;,!, ii's base, the mansion »hoo>. "'^j. 
 Which tun^y^Pope compared to farlan atone-.' * 'l^'- 
 It's lofty turrets in.dst the ciduds were reared " '^ ""' ' 
 
 What wilt thou clioos*?, a Poddridiio' moral PMe ' 
 Or Calrin. briuht f^^fr'ofl^j!:^'^*^] 'f' ^' 
 Or will thoa clioose to yUW ■Newton ifcere' '"'' '^^ ^ 
 Or Tuliy, ftme, HhereE^S??^ ^'^'^ ^''' «^"^' 
 III thai great mansicin ii'Swh fiotary fobiid^'" '^"* "' ^ 
 Jome aof/g^A/ ./ not, yet these Jhe }H uses sound : 
 But. ah ' whai perverse 'Mua^ assigned a tiimr"'" ' 
 To sons of 4u)oeg8 ne«e/ ha»ina .'hAn- _ ' ' 
 To rigid critics. ^ med bi,Jji^er«»Sii«lf.&h^ ~ 
 Wna torn away to give these men a rtame— 
 
 
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 When the wont wit, that ev«r Benued i iiiM. 
 Wa. beitet tkfn the bc.l thacfie^^doit •TjlS^r.nU 
 With vaat exertioi|», see fj Cooke* ^ffkce y ^ 
 The name of Pope, hia own the lhro|iV« /iMrtla. 
 But, silent «r^ tiiejr now, liieir cenaurMo'er^ V 
 The host of Curlls,* an^ Tibl^fld's,* a^e no moM! 
 While bis ^eAt name, iq «very learned mind, .u 
 For ages, yel to come, a home shall find. ^^ 
 ?*«?''? ' ^J^;^W»^>« bjr flattery, and by ligJn^ 
 A Wolsey hath Q9w,r«aohed the iiimoat heigbl-n 
 Alas, ho's diizy ! he |J«ory'» ,fo^* ,eothra|i^, y 
 
 more vindictive. He aly ht>eil9d Hr^ep» in evprwfcapei 
 
 which h* had any inttrwu (wid,,h«J[>»inf f,hoHkM|lBr,;i^«e w 
 not a few,; but published w»»k« gratU, for alj'ol/ierii'wiiochofi 
 libel him; Binong whom tfie sevserett Wan Jbtih 0eiinn, wlio. 
 
 • Thomas Cooke, one o^the aeVerest of J^ope's critica—Vut only 
 ont, out of, I may lay, hUndreda- He iiniM a heiirriftiia pmnphlet 
 •gainat the above 'Withor;J and Wh«Ultei«(Uahf:¥UM(fijiiMg bis 
 worke, the inveterate ;a«d lea«oedprilM} aiiliaediMr. PepejSiperaon, 
 religion, friends, *o. in .* menn^r withmwba veil of tiuih about 
 It, as induc«l many people to believe it w«s}mtheniio f-SeaTooke's 
 « Battle of ihe Poela,* and Letters ibHhe •* Fiying PiS" I^Sournal 
 loug aince diseontiholet?. ' r / 
 
 t Edmund Ciirll,murf srameraetheAreeedin^hut far 
 
 more vindictive. Ho aly hbelM Mr^opft in evpr^paper in 
 
 •-.. L . I .. were 
 
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 .• , .^- ",'"" --"■»•"-• ••".-•utlH C^VIIIIIB, wIlO, iO 
 
 the ••Satirical Heflectiona on *H»oKhBp«idy tfjillwd an 'ISbBay on 
 Criticiam,' " » iE«,p nt the .Bear..Oarilen<iin i«iJi««ttpii of the 
 * lemple of arnf,|,V ani^ Qt^^r ^ FmM><^ttoaa witliaitt number, 
 showed the greaipatingrai^^uijeapd revenge pwiblo. Airo, Jamei 
 Smith Moore, T. Old mixon, Leonard Welited, (who rcallV ■ qui- 
 red sen « little fame as a poet,) &.c. 
 
 t Lewis Theobeid, (R4im mbbald,) a otwepaper editor-. «Im an 
 enemy 10 Pppe-^writiug tJiemoStipsaodalou. artiples ^cliiit that 
 «Mhor, ant^, like Curll, cpurtiof , wtirka whereby tie might OMre 
 •eourely libel him, A pferiodiQaTcalled " Mists' Weekly Jdurnal " 
 wea the on* that hia artides gtitiersliy irppyjiredjn. A% fi»r bis 
 •WB Journal, it ■iWeritietl with abtiaivefli^iiie* in ererr^olamn 
 written by^l)enntt, Welsted^ CirMfc (a fanwus awofdr Jiv ^^ Cent' 
 
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 Or elA. HT* iinlr i^rtl. it;.!^ '.-I-.tPL . * 
 
 Xino i.Y' m,*ff,»«g^ wi^^^ pare. 
 
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 Stare, death Hhe f.cJ'^"'f ^T^' ♦*-"»«^ * ^'^^ 
 « He gain, her like . WelK'' J^'lP-'"*'. »»•«««•". 
 
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 •Mrific^d at t^?,^c, of fhVS»a5&Xife^^ »• «»• 
 
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 W lioiii faitio Kbftll crown, tw wreaiibi «le|nai gr«ettt 
 'I'liHt when the fortner'B iiame «xtin«t h«ii;beea< > 
 fireat N*>'«, liii fTame's proati aiioals! wiUnbe seen — 
 VV'here wbt hiiiKreatiiess^ when bis plji^tad gag« 
 Left mighty Nejr to daatard Bourbanif age 7 
 Ttien fell great Ncy<— to infamous intrigue 
 No never would thy soul with traitors league — 
 Then felt a iuan, whd held inviolate > ; >U 
 
 His faith tf^ France, that thrice unhappy SulftrH. 
 He coijid not servle the craven, nor pbey»h Kruuff! 
 Tiie mandates of the iking that France did twty^- 
 Thou didst not Ney ! but Wellington, prou.d^ ^^» 
 Fell loweiqistill— he broke his sacred wor^ildi.;!! 
 
 How differeM thy; sister'goddesSi Famet-Su %nVli 
 From tiwei an empty vapor withannmftt} oj mt'H 
 O, grant me M use, frotn troubled scenes^ iUlc llKtse, 
 To turn to liope^ w^tre etfery line shall please. 
 
 Hail, Hope! isweetsodther of the troubled Qiitid, 
 Thou goddess, that with Joy inspires mienl(in4t 
 Most gentle Hope ! where doth thy form «ot dlTill. 
 On Ocean's hrine, and in the liungeon'a ceU-r^ / 
 Away with grim despair, and let thy t«iiisn * ; 
 Of ideal fancies, sweep. -across, my brai«:> <.\\\a ' 
 Let melancholy and rerengC) begone, \u... < ; 
 While fairy visions of ithe goddess dawn/l.^. v,'i 
 Alluring Hope, can arA, thy gemius span <$ .tH 
 Bright glows thy rodiancc ij.the heart <»f ntanf*4 
 What though blind forlUnoi frowning hides her face. 
 Sweet hopp, and nature^ can the brea{it:S<4«eerrA 
 Nature can charm ; and ihopestill br ighl. remftini, 
 Tboo^tieorrvwa risdyvshe utilMigbt reiaina. j f/ 
 
 Af llhott^ot (air I the soother of the soul, 
 
 >W1l6ft ctvtl turmoil and despair doth r«>ll-~> . . * 
 
 /«iL'iflii^-ii,w-' ^(R'jiyi^--:: .'.k,^ii.,,,^.*'..^:k^u,-ii_,s : diva 
 
 J. us 
 
 .iC3Mj'.^2;^n?, 
 
 Uop% lights the warrior to the batU<^plAit»^'r;i g^: 
 An« caa burn still, e'ea though b«r tubjeoU jiela— 
 
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 She lilfs the aspinfn* wiih^ tl)e Iwit of f»ini», i. us* d 
 
 And Fame, t»r «itM»,: soundB the victor'* tjariitfjiirf;- 
 And with the }«&riivd and pefeevering saj^c, , a 
 
 She Iight8^itfihd|)e of 0?fti«e, the finished p<f;^e-^« ; 7 
 She smiles aHke", on every itafiire'a chthl^ 
 l.ires in their heart*, jind «ll their hoHrs befliiiiod.' 
 
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 In vain, alas, is al) lhe| (loMfip^' praise> 
 
 The Muie c n sing in thesie degenerate dajjs, 
 
 To sing of Hope, the ^lerial svlph diviop, 
 
 Would be theanes of Campbell,* and not mi»< 
 
 And no idea to the mind occurs, 
 
 But ^ 1 his geniqjs, in, his lay, concurs. 
 
 Tl • e, with beautjr, and the finest rhyme, 
 
 Are al! combined, in his great work, sublime: 
 
 And all sttenapts |p rai^e it are in vain, ' '/ t 
 
 And only wo^^d 8Mb nract from that poeUc*^n8m^^' 
 
 In thought as i|pe|>, with RMmbers. Rmpolh wPoRe,"' !; 
 
 Are in the exquisiip *' Plpwure? of Hope.f ''^^*^ *^"'^ ^ 
 
 Sister oM4tipe,'«ccntate Ti-uih, divifte^ 
 
 In radiantjtloritsy doth «hy= virtues shiiifc-j 
 
 O spotless Ti*iit1i, thy Iovtfi»' ever ju9t-i> '■ 
 
 Justness thy love, contentment thy sweet trust. 
 
 So Truth WUhr Mtfr—cwation'e dtWii behdd 
 
 Adam content—dttd joy bi* bosom »we»«a-^ --^a-fi Lni. 
 
 ' ^'• ' '^ ■ ' "' ' ' -' -■■■ •■- '■ ' >'lir.a-| Jill. 7 
 
 • Evenr literary pcrtonhtiJoobtUi. heard of jbii«n»in»d» nwtl 
 only a fewwetks 4fc«a«?d. >H» wm bom jn {ifptlanii in m u 
 h» father was a merchant of G|a«ow,4ind di^d in Wfl. tl|o«.; 
 Campbell. •«> tM twe Ah vear 6f|j. i.e. gaiijed a bprWy.Yor tW 
 tranalaiion^of dii o^'the ©.rtWleJof /^fefopWttw ; inTCm^^^ 
 
 of a tragedy mt^MmihjiM, Wtwam in iwrw. , In 1797,M #« •«• eft 
 \^*^}'J^M^9^A hiaJUuatrieue •»Plewure« of Hope/' wWI. 
 
 Continent; and #ii{le' tlT.rp, ctin^A th, .*Bait|#^W Holrti,!^ 
 linden — n email piece, but fuHdf vigor. Ife OHrHed in 1808.^ 
 
 and the aame vear nrnAni^^ k:. ((U:...«.- .# n ^ u-i....-- j./V~» 
 
 Wyoming W beautifai P*»m» but inferior to^lTfrttiM^iiSion.; 
 -oete," were hie laet He died in Boulogne, in 1844. 
 
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 Dwell in the garden of famed P8radi»«- , ua . ,j> 
 Commiioed with God. a air.«,«r stiU to ric«~ .f^'^ 
 Allowed save one, the fruit of e«ery tree— ,■ / 
 Butth* day. he brake hi. m*ker'. n!^Jd decr^., Hf t ^'^ 
 And eat the fruit~-he mortal would l,e then! Ajfe : .'? 
 And dying dust, be all the race of men. 
 A inatj, was formed ; they were supremely blest- 
 nappy arose, with joy lay down to rest ; '^" ,<"« ' 
 Truth cast around her blissful beam ©flight ' 
 For hope, had not lit up her pathway bright,' 
 rhe serpent, subtilest of the brutish race 
 Truth disregarded, to usurp her place. ' '' ' ' > ' « i 
 He Eve beguiled— reauUing deftth dehitd; ^' ' ' ■ 
 She eat the fru^, and then to Adiim hied— 
 He loo partook, and truth affrighted fled— 
 And earth, was soon a charnel-house of d*iid 
 
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 'PI. J '*'^^>T ^*'"*' ;"^ pity >ook her ftght' ' '>"/ 
 I hen dfreidful ihtilrdcr^id uiurl^ her right— 'i * '1. »t 
 
 Each gentle passion, drivien, quit' mankind; ^^ 
 
 But Hope the charmer, lingered atill behind." 
 les Hope, on golden wings, flew to the earth 
 And with her slater's fall, derived her birth. ' 
 
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 Again, withiiJewit Christ, th# g4»dde8« dnwned 
 And weeping PUy.,tft, mankind feturfted. 
 Now mai*:* sweet €omfort is, the charming Hope 
 Thin Paradise dgain hia soul mty envelope. 
 
 rn^ ,i^b|e ja^gp of liberty ih&intain ! '^ -^* 
 
 Hm mmm inuse,gr«i^t Vf aabvigtoh 4\si^^tik'. 
 D*ftj«MgtFreedom^^ 
 
 If^rth fam^ in vi*ii^ li* tr*— A-i^ -:^-^^ 1.^^.. . - ■ T* 
 
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 IijiWltal Herachet, fell ifte swei^fa dflff doil 
 ^bfthlihe soul of first.of wjetp, I*ppc. *^^ 
 
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 i!ss'( »ifljii» .i.-,'i Tina 
 
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 But why should heroes all thy praise engage T 
 Rise honest Muse, in the recording pagel 
 
 With Tell and Hampden, guarding Freedom's lawi— 
 
 At the age of 24 he was left a "irfortul b! h^•fn!h'^°''1f"• 
 commenced his charitable servic". in brhal^o7poor ^ife^ 
 man.ty. On a visit to Portugal, he «a« capture/by a French* nr^" 
 
 =te;?2;;z;^vi^2Sj^ ~'3^a^^ 
 i^eh:wz;:;t':;?:t-^^ 
 
 ted than he went through France, visiting every prison and d«" 
 S"r\^""'"'"*'" "'■ ''•« """«'» barb'arit/.^jSenev'er rested 
 unt. he had iDterested the Government to look into thele denari 
 
 Sh"r ff • S!?"i ''ir '"8 '° ^"u*'""-^' '« 17''3. '•« wl^cJeated Ch 
 
 in,n«5'.h • • " ^'!f" •"'*"' *^'""°"S'' «^«'y county of England fo 
 
 n,pect the ja.ls and prisons-furn.shing, at his own expense ev^'v 
 
 thing conducive to the cohifort of the'inmates. F"^K veaS 
 
 tionolrVi!"''^'^'',"?'"'''""' '"™«'^«^ "^^^ eomfortabV he conS ! 
 tion of felons and prisoners throughout the Bridewell, in lP„-?u 
 
 F a„r"'' f J'?*'*'"? '^^ J«''^ ">' France, HolLnd, GerminJ 
 Flanders, and Switzerland. It would lake up entirely YooTnS 
 space h- e to enumerate tho deeds of this |reat phflamhoDut 
 and i„M?."^' "?'•' <5'' «i^'e«n Vea.she was cfns anSy em&d 
 
 Portiga Tu?kV;'n:^°'r''''^' ^^^•^«"' Russia, PofandfsK 
 -J:r I- '. *'"'*«y^; "aly, Prussia, Smyrna, ConstantinoDle- *n 
 
 r^lfT"'^^!''"'} "?^™"'i°" in the priBons, brideS? lat 
 .Xr- M ""■ •' "" *'»'' hospital—founding .ome, a.^^ repa irTn; 
 others. On visiting an infectious hospiJa! at ChersoripXI^S 
 Tartary, he caught tho olaffun. nn.l«/.vK:„i. k:- _?°"?.r..*'"'l"" 
 
 fioaraDhv^Jil If?'i ' ? "? ""^ "** b"ghte« ornament* of BHtish 
 piography, fuJI of Christian hope and rewgnatfon, 
 
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 ^n<J W«»bingtOD» the patriot's noble name, , 
 Shall too rank high among the aona of Fam« : 
 So thq9, like Homer culling Hector's baja 
 ^ J|1*ff9^ <MOg» Columbia's patriot's praise! 
 
 Sh*^ -Tl V ^«""'»' 'l'»'a« a murderer's fame. 
 While Tully's was a free, untainted name, 
 And Socrates, and great Plato's were the 'same 
 S** ^'"l" ^^"^ ^*^'*^' singing Newton's praise ' 
 Twae honest fame, which lives while stars do blaze • 
 And yet, all Fame is but the common's breath • 
 And for her voice, the price is often death • ' 
 That mighty Faroe, is the historian's pen. ' 
 A Wellwley'^fame, lives in the mouths of men ! 
 
 See critics, scurrilous, low idiots aim. 
 To get one blast of soul-inspiriog Fame ; 
 rhey cannot writ^, nor one idea compose 
 BMt r9il on authors—poets' surly foes ; ' 
 Fwr those who wish to gain a critic's fime, 
 Must build their basis on another's name. 
 With joy he hears a poem first announced, 
 A>i4 soon, his blight opinion is pronounced : 
 l^oad the work, he points out each offence— 
 ^^^First tires our patience, then misleads our sense •"* 
 He sees it fall— in vain the bard's declaim— 
 And as it falls so swells, the critic's fame. 
 iSgaod the piece, he frets, and fume* in vain 
 Nor can the Wit, his usuaJ object gain ; 
 But by attacks, with neither sense nor aim 
 Too great declaimer builds a stolen fame. ' 
 How^plain are Tibbald's scoffs 'gainst Pope now seen 
 Mncb like the Asi pf B-„.-_d's Magazine- ' 
 
 Who couW invent no theme himself to sound 
 But on good writers, savagely, he frowned. ' 
 I bus had the gifted author of the '* Bath " 
 I'o bsajs the " critic's" comments, and hie wrath 
 
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 The above line, in quoutiont, is from Pope. 
 
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 Ii is the place were fools aspiring fly 
 To criiicwe, to censure, and to lie. 
 
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 says the wit, " he that doth 
 
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 . , . — "^ pr^Mh 'ifaittst fame 
 
 Always prefixes to his work, his name." 
 Yes, every one that ^raws the breath of life 
 Seeks farae-«8ome in letters, or in fields of strife. 
 See laurelled Eusden.* at a king's right hand, 
 Ihs mighty king of poets through the land- 
 But, says his brother bard.t *^by fortune raised 
 By very few was read, by fewer praised." 
 Yet see the laurere's crown, of fading bays 
 And see him rule o'er Cowley'sJ well known lays. 
 But what of this— behold a Gibber^ reign 
 And, crowned with laurels, loud applaosei gain • 
 i his praise, was not attained by flowing verse ! 
 
 Not by the Muse what then ?" a wdl-filled purse. 
 Behold a Swift, a Garth.H at tbd sSfrie time ^ 
 Behold a Pope, yet Gibber king of rhyme. 
 O partial king ! O Mose, and genias, fly 
 Let dulness reign, and heavenly sisters die 
 
 • Laufeftee Eugden— the Post Laureate in 1720— fiS~ w- k*. 
 «uch a miserable composer of verse, that a con^n;, ^^ 
 (T OFd^ixon) says of Eicn-u Tha^of ail 'thVgBSr ^e^:: 
 met with, none comes op to 8oM« VBtsM tt^thl* 6bet ' t^h,Vh h* 
 a. much of the ridiculu^. *„d the fustifcrtTft K'is S b* i'll 
 jumbled together; and are of thai sort of nSnw wbior,« 
 
 fhe'S/''"''""'''^ ^" •'^"' ^'' '""« " "0 ^^^"nTt'Zlla fn" 
 coipTe^""" ^°°''*' '"'"' '" ^''' " ^^**'* o** Poets," has ^6 a^ove 
 
 \ r«if ''*'?5!J"''*^ a celebrated poet, who flourished in 1667 
 § Colley Gibber, the Poet Laureate of 1730-40. He wrolfos 
 traged.es and comedies, but they were nearly as ridiculous !it£ 
 productions of his predecessor, Eusden. fcibber rtfe"hSo of 
 
 aj:= iisag hzd hia jpuoi, and also his fool ; 
 
 Tl(iir^/^*x*^''* '° ^'"«^'' ^'^ ^*^2 y«» all icnpw it, 
 TJiat Ctbber must serve both for fool and for poet " 
 
 B Dr. Garth-i^uthor o:' the "Di-oengary," and other peems. 
 
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 60 
 
 Ah, false Apollo ! to such to giro the throne ; 
 Alas, where is thy bright perception flowo ? 
 This IS not all— behold a Pye,» on State, 
 
 S u!.~.*°u.*''®.*'"'°^*' "^y <l«lne88, Jove, and fate;" 
 BehftM this dunce, in splendid wealth, on high. 
 And see a Burns, oppressed, in misery die : 
 Nor finished, yet, is this eternal shame- 
 But Pye's extinct, and Burns in living fame. 
 Now see this post, a wordy Wordswortht gain : 
 And Britoo's see him o'er a CampbellJ reigo. 
 
 High on a couch, see dulness' son recline. 
 He reads a play, is fired by the Nine— 
 •' Why couldinot I, in such a thing excel ; 
 I'll try — I know that I can write it well." 
 An hour spent, and the first line is past; 
 
 But, «t the second, see our bard is fast • 
 "Ah, curse the thing," he cries, •• I fear, I fear. 
 I hat, on the stage, my verse shall ne'er appear." 
 Then sonnets, ballads, love-songs, (endless theme) 
 
 Nor yet awakes the " would be." from his dream ; 
 
 An author turned, the rhymes like rivers pour ; 
 
 His well-earned fame, hear " Grub-street alley" roar. 
 
 O, Mose, now view blank-verse like sermons rise. 
 
 Tedious to hear, and loathsome to the eyes ; 
 
 But not that verse, that Milton formed his fame ; 
 
 Nor Garrick's Shakespeare, thundered Ajax' name. 
 
 Soutbey, a poet learned and sublime, 
 
 In merit, next to Campbell, of his time ; 
 
 But affectation of the Wordsworth' school. 
 
 Made him too vain, and his great teacher 'fool. 
 
 This age is one of wonders, all arc wise. 
 
 Great Newion's theory, some learned wit denies ; ' 
 
 '* Pv« — the Pnut l.anrAsio #>>r ik^ i_^>. 
 5«t^ saiic 
 
 ^^"l "" ^ff IJ?^'' ^^' ^— "uthor of th« " PleuursB of Hoiv^ ." 
 
 i^ot 
 
fate ;" 
 
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 it, 
 
 m; 
 
 roar. 
 
 ise, 
 
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 ime. 
 
 ««te. 
 
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 Who saw. tl.e plane., hurled around the «un 
 Lach on .ts orbu, through space' ocean ru" ;' 
 
 By which each world was led its mighlv course 
 
 Great Hliv'^f' "."'" ''^""^1^" """'^'^^^ P^^^ed: 
 Oreat Halley, dead, iramortal Herschel, gone 
 
 rwas these, alone, that made the sciencf krtiwn. 
 
 The Stage !-once too, the tragic Muse' retreat— 
 Here laughmg Thalia, and stern Calliopcr.^ee^ 
 This .8. alas ! indeed a foolish age- ^ 
 What see we now upon the once great stage T 
 A pack of mountebanks, in masks disgiflsed, 
 By fools admired, by the wise despiser 
 
 Could he behold a fulsome, modern play; 
 
 ■ Ho?i i-- ' *'r*" ^'^'" ^^^ ''"d- of Prance. 
 How different from Foote's. ye Muses know : 
 Or where immortal Garrick's tears did flow 
 He could ,n Lear's old form, draw the salt tear- 
 Or chiH his audience, all. lyith Hamlet's fear' 
 Or fire the blood with Shakspeare's g^l^ingVtrain 
 
 2^r':?th^:f P :/a^ ^°' T"°^ ^'' cross'thTmala ; 
 ur with old Falsiaff-s paunch, cowards derides f 
 
 And make his laughing audience hold their sides • 
 
 And his great name surnres the Stage's wreck. 
 
 Pay not O youth, the pearl of health and time 
 For such a fickle shadow, won by crime ' • I 
 Her voice, as changing as the baffling wind : 
 Purchase, « comprehensive, judging mind 
 Sweet knowledge, is a theme. ].t «n Z±^ 
 IM ot changing and cap ricious; faK i^;^' 
 
 "Hanry v., called "the Star of England. ■• ""^'"^ 
 
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 But fresh, ontadiiig, like a well-eaTned b.ty— 
 A fame that triumphs, with the muse of Cjuy. 
 
 INTEM>ED AS A SEQUEL TO THE " STEEP OF rAME." 
 
 • ' Let us, since Life can little more supply. 
 Than just to look about us, and to die — 
 Expatiate freely o'er this scene of man, 
 A mightff maze, but not without • plan."— ■Pope. 
 
 " We trifiliU—and he who best deserves 
 Is but a trifler. What art Thou, uhost iyt 
 Follows my pen ? or what am I that wtite f 
 Both triflers !—' Us a trifling world /"— Huhdh. 
 
 'Tis Life I siog, and the pursuits ol Life — 
 
 No more the thunders of a nation's strife ; 
 
 But Man, a being of a middle state, 
 
 Too wise— too dark— too little— vain, yet great. 
 
 See Fame, with all her train^ lead mortals high-^ 
 
 Forsakes them in a labyrinth, of grief to die ; 
 
 When first she leads, he would attempt the sun, 
 
 "And shew the planets in what orbs to run ;" 
 
 Till all his projects fail, and she has flown — 
 
 Then curses life, and ends it with a groan. 
 
 See laughing Bemoclitus* mortals scan. 
 
 He knew the study of mankind was man ; 
 
 With vanity enough, a world to guide. 
 
 But baulked by ignorance, and choked with pride. 
 
 On earth, man is the principal, 'tis true, 
 
 Forms plans of glory, wants the power to do. 
 
 See man, a sUve, beneath the blazing line, ' 
 
 And see him> ipn a throne of diamonds' sbtipe ; 
 
 • DcmocHtus— an ancient philosopher, who laughed at the follies 
 of mankind ; while HeraentDR, a contemporary sage, we^t at them. 
 
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 Yel 80 it is, with beaa(« and brutei fbo toil 
 And cultivate, for man, the (r 
 
 See the dull 
 
 uitfui soil 
 
 And see him. Egypt's reverenced Deity. 
 Man luckily knows not his future state 
 tor Heaven, al! wise, conceals the book of late 
 See, every one some different duty tries 
 And each thinks, but himself no morialwise. 
 See Chaltertont aspire to soundinij fame 
 And leave behind. . troubled poet's name ; 
 See a cold world damp out the mental clov,. 
 And see, the murderous pistol ends the .how. 
 r ti V ' *^® "■"" °" '" soluquv— 
 
 Shakspeare write, this, whose ever rising name 
 Has not attained the zenith of iis fame. 
 •^. ' emulation ! through each mortal's mind 
 From thoughtless rustics, to courtiers refined 
 Sow still thy seeds ; let every one engage- 
 Tis scarcely but for more than half an ase ' 
 Let authors write-let teasing critics raii- ' 
 Let kings, on dunces, unearn'd wealth entail- 
 Let potentates lotrigue, in deeds of state- 
 But let not Plutus' victims view thei. fate 
 Let sages laugh a! such a race of men— 
 Its only so ught, for threescore vears and ten • 
 
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 ^hJilT".?*"*""-?-^"'"*^ »"»»«'. EngJand in 1732 nrA 
 who, before the aee of 17 wrotn nn»m. .»... ^ 7 ' l , .' "**** 
 
 written things superior to anvthi,.,, „/.!'^S • i rT^""*'»^'n« 
 
 suicide, on tHa SMth Apga»t. «t the ngo of 17 veT: *••*?•""""•<» 
 which had «,«jji.i„ !J!1_ LI- 1 f _ V yws. Mw poems. 
 
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 Each man believes all mortals born to die 
 IJiU he will live on earth, etertially. ' 
 
 Behold a Clements* liv«, unlearned, unwise 
 A noteless fortune but to realise ! * 
 
 How short is Life— how swift it glides away f 
 O ! JU81 resemblance of a winter's day • 
 In this vaKt world no pleasure can be )und 
 And happiness is but an empty sound ; ' 
 
 The rich, unhappy in his crowded stores 
 A monarch.f wreck'd upon an Austria's shores : 
 1 he wise are not, they find but a- few joys 
 As any other.^fii.ding all but loys. 
 Who wishes )ear8 ? Then he is sorrow's child. 
 VV ho sees old age, will seldom see it mild f 
 Tis not the wealth of Chartrest, or the fame 
 Of Philip's son, ihat age's miseries tame; 
 Tis not the beauty of an Egypt's Queen', 
 That checks disease, or cools the fire unseen ■ 
 Nor all the honors of a r'aesar's crown, ' 
 
 Could but a pang of toothache's pain thrust down 
 O! vain, vain man! how madly run vou on, 
 While all before you is obscure, unknown ; ' 
 
 Jacob Clements. E«q., wl,o died in England in 1844. Ho began 
 
 where, by dint of perseverance and industry, be earned £15 in a 
 very abort tune ; and then started to London to «' seek . fortuie " 
 «t iV»tT '"' """ 1«« I'ecame engaged waiter to a hotel ; and 
 at length Jom a lervant bceame master; und from a landlord to a 
 banker. He died at the age of 85, and left a fortune of JE390.000' 
 «• was humane, it is said, in a very high degree. 
 
 t Richard, CcBur de Lion. * ^ 
 
 J Francis Chartres—an infamous character. He was, when an 
 •ns.gn in the army, drummed out of the Regiment for theft-was 
 banished from Brussels-and by gaming, eheatery. and every ma" 
 
 k!LJI ly""*' ^''??'n».'«»«5' ■ '"«« fwt""*- He keptaperpetnal 
 bawdy house. He died m Scotland, in 1751, Bfed 62; and the 
 populace raised a fraat not at his funeral, tors tfc*.K.-„4^ .-.-.-.j .-.r jk_ 
 •^onin, and cast dead dogs into the grave. ' The lbliowing"epit«ph 
 w« written by Dr. Arbuthnott "-ing epiwpn 
 
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 68 
 
 And mortal pleasures are forever hurl'd 
 From this mad, rioting, delusive world. 
 
 
 Behold the sage, above ail others bright. 
 The wise Solomon, who»»» .:.; i shed truth and light! 
 He says, "(io to, naine 'leart, 1 i»,'t7/ find mirth / 
 In every part of this fat iti*uc eai h, i^. ;>,<;, 4 { 
 
 I ufili seek pleasure, aaJ v !,j hmu ib p*in'; \ -• h„ ff_ 
 Again he says—" "Twas » -njiy- and vain ; 
 
 ■ KRB CONTIHVKTH TO ROT 
 TUE BODY OP 
 
 FRANCIS CHARTRC9, A 
 
 Who, with «n inflexible constancy, 
 And initnitttbte uniformity of life, 
 
 PERSISTZD, - , 
 
 In spite of age or infirmitiflS,' ' '^'' 
 In the practice of every human vice, ' 
 
 . Excepting Prodigality and Hypocrisy. 
 Hit insatiable Avmriee exempted him from tb« first, j/. 
 His matchless Impudence from the second ; i 
 
 Nor was he more singular in the pratity of his manturS, 
 Than successful in acoumulatinr Wealth : 
 For, without trade or profo8$ion. 
 
 Without trxut of Public Money, 
 
 And without bribe-worthy service. 
 
 He acquired^ or, more properly, creaUd, 
 
 A MINISTERIAL ESTATE. 
 
 , He was the only person of his time, 
 
 Who could cheat without the mask of honesty. 
 
 Retain hid primeval meanness. 
 
 When possessed of Ten Thousand a year, 
 
 And having daily des. ved the gibbet for what he did. 
 
 Was at last condemned to it, for what ha could not rffl, 
 
 OH, INDIGNANT REAtiER, 
 
 Think not his life useless to mankind ! 
 
 Providence connived at bis execrable designs, 
 
 To give to after ages 
 
 Asufficiantproof and example, 
 
 Of how small estimation is exorbitant wealth, ' 
 
 !n liieiigfii ufiiuu. 
 
 By hit b«stowinff it on the noit unworthy 
 Of ail mortals. 
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 I will then joy ift wine tnd folly find. 
 
 And tee what pletsures doth enchant mankind. 
 
 I built me houseB, and huge works I made. 
 
 » /here blooAing gardens formed a leafy shade • 
 
 Fjoit tress I plnnied, and rich orchards laid 
 
 While glistening pools in golden sunbeams played : 
 
 I hired servanis, some in my house were born. 
 
 Maidens I had, fair as the blushing morn • 
 
 Possessions raighty-catll<., score on score : 
 
 "#orus8lem nVer saw my like before 
 
 There ne'er was one. whose treasures were like mine. 
 
 And over sages, did my wisdom shiue. 
 
 Nothing my eye beheld, but I enjoyed 
 
 Methoughi by man I ne'er could bi annoyed. 
 
 Then forth I weht to view my towering walls. 
 
 My houses, arbors, and loud waterfalls-- 
 
 The mighty works that I had formed and raised- 
 
 The lofiy turrets, to the earth's end praised : 
 
 And when I saw all I had ever done 
 
 I said ' there is n6 profit 'neath the sun.' 
 
 All my wonders, all my golden gain. 
 
 But vexed the spirit— 'twas vanity, and vain. 
 
 ••I saw the fool-the madman-all mankind- 
 Just end alike myseK, with god-like mind ; 
 And thus, the beggar, prince, the rich, the learn'd. 
 Was once but dust, and all to dust return'd ; 
 And then said I. • how vain is jesting life 
 A scene of folly, madntas, and of strife.' * 
 
 " the wise I ., joy, in this life, can tttain, 
 
 But all is vanity, and all is vain ; 
 
 I hated all the labors of my day, 
 
 For soon Uwould fall, and all my towers decay; 
 
 ii^hen I was dead, with another 'twould be found. 
 
 And i*3on mjF name would alomber with my ground.^' 
 
 rhoB spoke • man, whost ^ual ne'er vaaaeen - I 
 Who never will be, and hat never been. 
 

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 While in thii life, wa struggle oa onr way, 
 The price for future honor., ell nMi«t pay, 
 . Would you be rich ? then if you sirire, you r v ; 
 The road ,s straight, the beaten treek pursue^ ' 
 But rough, and far, and difficult, 'tis true • 
 iurn not aside, mind not the orphan's cry. 
 Uppress the poor, and from the widow fly. 
 But, ,f you would be ria, you must not turn, 
 I o right, nor left, nor wisdom's lessons Ic.u n i 
 Jgnorant thou must remain, ihy soul engrossed 
 in speculation, and with business tossed : 
 
 TuZ '"i ?;'*''*•'* 5"*®' ^^y conscience and thy niad 
 Despised thy iriends, to every one unUind; ^ 
 wen thou hast purchased, what thou did'st desire 
 Too dear, alas !-- WA^ 'tis not safe from Jin JT' 
 Now houses, and estates, and iihips in fleets. 
 Ana coaches, footmen, are thy purchased sweeti. 
 Would thou, O youth, to martial flame aspire. 
 And glorrous death, upon the field, desire. 
 Then pay the price, thy limbs, perhaps thy life. 
 May fall the victim, to a nation's strife • 
 Ungrateful kings, no sweet rewards impart 
 Then draw thy sword (?) and act a Roman's part f 
 O votary, would thou learning's p«ths ettend ? 
 And make the much-despised Muse thy friend. 
 Would thou in literature, aspire to fame. 
 And, bright in letters, leave the world a name • 
 Then pay the price-thy health and vouih mu^ aa 
 But let Ihy mind, still feel the inspiri.'.g 2w' '* 
 In nn(ln.gl.t vigiU. ,hou o'er Rome mus? weep 
 Distil the Grecian lore, while others sleep- *^* 
 
 I^f 'i V^ "'«^*"' ""*'* **'« MuseofOay^ 
 And Johnaofl, mighty, and Pope's genial hv : 
 And Addison, sublime, bis volume "scan ' ' 
 Am there behold a great, and learned mn, 
 Pa«aa if thou wilt. f»r dreadful barrier. mJI 
 Bclwut thee now, and tby inuo|w»i.|ied.^'go,|. 
 
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 When rich in«il scorn thee, do thou not repine. 
 They paid their jewel, just as thou didst thine; 
 And still reflect, what have they for their loJIT 
 A marble tombstone, and fix fei t of soil ! ! 
 Thy noble soul, hath learned to understand 
 The glorious work? of God's Almighty hand ; 
 Remember too, thou hast a mind will scan, 
 The sweets of nature, and the works of man j 
 Thou hast a name. Undying as the tongue, 
 In which thy motives have been said or sung; 
 Nought is beyond thy grasp, which is not vain. 
 For genius' might all thy pursuits will gain. 
 
 Behold the Shepherd boy,* on Scotland's plain, 
 Want, ignorance, and coarseness, o'er him reign ; 
 Behold, agairtj see by his mind alone, 
 He fills the learned Edin^'s linguist's throne. 
 See at the play-house door, without a friend, 
 The youtht who to the audience' horses tend ; 
 Look through the vista of these years again, 
 And see him high in Jove'a eternal faoe. 
 See a poor menialj; on a miller wait. 
 In rustic ignorance born, a humble fate ; 
 
 «.' 
 
 • Dr. Alezandar Murray—a moit extraordiaarj instance ^eokis 
 and application. Hs was bo^n in galloway, in the soutt if S«ot> 
 land, in the year 1775. His father was but a poor shephf.rd, with 
 a large family of children. Alexander was taught to write and 
 read, by his father, upon the back of an old wool-Card, with a 
 stick bu black in the fire. He wrote his autobiography, which 
 is very ir.ieresting, and shows what perseverance and merit can do. 
 As his history is butficiently well known, suffice it to say, that at 
 the age of 19, he underwent an examination in Edinburgh, and 
 •xpliiincd accurately a passage of French, an Ode of Horace, a pago 
 ot Homer, and a Hebrew Psalm. Besides these, he understood 
 the Arabic iangua^. He died in 1U13. (See his Life in Cluim- 
 bers' excellent publication, " Exemplary Bipgraphv.'' ,, 
 
 t^hakspeare. . . ' -"^ ■ ' ^ * »- '<^t;.u.»;. .n. 
 
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 |««» fctA.^ U4*««V»fr 
 
 . , luigsnce aiiu Vv&nt, 
 
 raised himself, palely by hii oWa •zMtidtts and genius^ td b« tfa* 
 first BstroneoisT ctfliMafK 1 
 
 ■rf.jfertj 
 
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 Beboki again, and see hii genius blaze, 
 
 Scotland 8 astronomer." in glorious bays. 
 See Hcrschel serve as drummer, while his mind. 
 Was far above the mosi of human kind : 
 And now mid ancient gods, a planet's name 
 Forever .mgs. the great discoverer's fame. ' 
 Jk'hold a poor apprentice, walk alone, 
 With not a dwelling he could call his own : 
 Then see h.m grasp, the lightning's fiery blaze, - 
 Before th admiring world, in wild annze. 
 
 GreM Franklin, grasped the lightning's fiery wioff 
 And Herschel. gave the lyre another string." • ^' 
 And see Columbia's ever radiant flame 
 Ljt by her Wilson'sf ever mighty fame! 
 What man has done, O man mav do again 
 By application, may his views attain. 
 
 But, hold ; 1 see, the madding critic's rage 
 Prepares to hold to scorn, my truthful pSgi; 
 Then lei a DrydenJ rise, opposing mien. 
 Who 's ne'er the "Satires."^ nor - Excu sion"!! seen 
 Or let the Eulogist of Wellesley's name. " 
 
 Deny the charges 'gainst tho Marschal's fame. 
 
 W. When man's the theme, the poet must beware ; : 
 M. Or never have, a pampered tyrant's care. 
 W. Young man, no honor, nor deserving bays. 
 Will you obtain, by such sarcastic lays. 
 
 TheieTliT, ?' "^^ "*,* ^'-f'' "^ *"«"«» ""«'h«r ..ring. '_ 
 1 here being ju»t seven planets known previous to Herschel r- 
 time. they were called ««tlie lyre of heaven •" but H«r«"h ir J 
 covery of the Georgi„„ mJ,cauJdZllu. of Spben' "' 
 
 t ThoUlirll t\¥vAan „ _ I 1 . 
 
 i''^?'*"J ^' P»"««y"«« and eulogies. memlwrs of 
 
 i i!l!j '^^u.*" ^**J?®' '•» •n»«»»t««n of Horace.. 
 If Wordsworth's « fcxcurnoo," a pow. 
 
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yi. What other ttMiiM is at the bard's command f 
 Each one of merit comes, at second hand : 
 No, let mankind, their every passion show ; 
 Let mortals leara, betimes, themselves to know. 
 
 W. What ! write for nothing— let tlicra find a purse; 
 
 Embalm a monarch's name, in living verse; 
 
 Or sing the praises, of a hero dead ; 
 
 Or he, that in Rome's fractious senate bled. 
 M. Forbid it, Muse, no tuneful numbers lend, 
 
 Should mercenary motives, be my end. 
 
 I have a Nelson sung, our isle's defence, 
 
 Yet with more admiration, than good sense ; 
 
 But praise th6 just, the talented, the learned, 
 
 A Hofer * patriot, or a Crnmer burned; 
 
 Declaim, promoters of a groundless war, 
 
 "Bare the mean heart, that lurks beneath a star." t 
 
 W,Tben vain, say you, is all a warrior's praise. 
 And to the living, flattery the lays ; 
 Then why, should heroes e'er in arms engage, 
 And live unheard of, till another age, 
 
 M. Yet 'tis not this— how fruitless is their fame, 
 Their splendid deeds, exempts from minor blame ; 
 For see a Wallace, for his country's sake, 
 How far outshine a false Montrose, or Blake ; 
 
 W. I understand you not— for Blake was true. 
 
 M. 
 
 He was ; but also of proud Cromwell's crew ; 
 0«l, thus, I will illustrate my view : 
 A chieftain, J long in foreign countries fought, 
 And had for fame, (not bootless) bravely fought ; 
 
 I lOA^ •'T **^*'"' 5''®. «'■*'* champion and psrfic^ of thf. Tyrol. 
 in IB09— a bravo and disintereited UMO—one to whom the Urm 
 1m*o might be taftly applied. 
 
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 •In ihii illustratioo, no partiiMilar psrsen it athided to^it is 
 perfoctly imagiDtrjr. 
 
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 H« 'd gained honor, and bis king's apphase, 
 And in hia conquesta, sown hiacouniry'slavvs • 
 In battle conqueror, victory claimed his rights 
 lie neer was wounded, in a hundred fights; 
 At length all 's gained, and the campaign is o'ei. 
 His t'oops prepare, to view their native shore. 
 But the fierce foe, drove to a final stand, 
 Resolve, in desperation, to regain their land ; 
 in countless numbers they oppose the chief 
 And every native, mad with hate and grie. •' 
 Yet their overthrown, their hosts are all dismayed 
 War can this general's laurels, ever fade. (?) 
 Again, his fate protected him from harm. 
 Though all around hire, roared the dread alarum. 
 1 hen. for the Press his exploits he prepares 
 To shew the world his squabbles of five years 
 Mark now, what conquests hss the hero woo, 
 Wh:le blood in rivers, in his footsteps run ; 
 ^ebold, a nation, once both brave and free 
 Though true they were not learned and wise' like we • 
 Behold them now, bound by wild discord's chain. ' 
 While cruel slavery o'er the victim's rpJirn : 
 Yet 'tis to civilize the barbarous horde- 
 Aye, with a vengeance, by the blood-stained sword. 
 W. But hold, you go to fir ; 'ttvas so indeed. 
 Bat now where are the people, that so bleed » 
 What does our senates, now, not tolerate ? 
 Uninfluenced by bribe, or flaming Ate. 
 
 M. I sing of men, not of one kind alone 
 
 nT.i^T' **"'^ ^*«*' *"^ *'•'"' ^''a» fi"» a throne 
 Behold the native naked at the line 
 Conveyed to foreign lands across the brine , 
 Their, neath the ever lifted lash, the slave. 
 Has the meridian sun, or storms to brave, 
 ^iAS -.vSHhlass bruiea ; and what a trivial cause, 
 inat man should form such arbitrary laws- 
 Because their skins are of a darker tinge. ' 
 Ihan those to whom the slaves are doomed to erini^e 
 
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 See where the Indian hUs^ wave thalt green treetf, 
 In the hot iropi<,'«i cool rftSVeshing breeze: 
 Their happy th.^uands, ot cv- joined in the cl ?ie^ 
 Or, in the forests, sought the exu'^ng ri^e ; 
 Now may you seek htse hauiiies:* trilt-s ji» ?ni?i, 
 Noi on, of alt these nations, now ren^^oin ! 
 %t by rs christian band theii- wari!or,> a!ain. 
 Their treasures plundered for the crown of Spain. 
 
 W. .Efjoigh, enoi!|^h, and with your tal^ proceed ; 
 'i . ' fga iliiibpa's* honored, yet Bee freedom bleed. 
 
 V* «li thus she chieftain, conquers every fie, 
 
 And crushed the daring nations' libeftses low. 
 
 To England t'hen, where wavering tno)u applaad, 
 
 And Journalists' the warriors exploits l&(<d ;. 
 
 AH vain— that day he hunts, falls from bis ateed, 
 
 Bursts an artery, and to death does bleed ; 
 
 'i'hus dies obscure, him who the world had feared. 
 
 To not one breast, was his great name endeared : 
 
 Thus how much better is a virtuoas name, 
 
 Than kings and conquerors, who're damned with fame. 
 
 Yet though life's vapor vanishes so fast, 
 And every day's considered as the last ; 
 The "sou/ shall flourish, in immortal youth," 
 
 These are the words of pure, inspired truth. 
 The soul secured in her existence, smiles 
 At all the turmoil of the earth's deep wiles ; 
 The stars shall fade, and palely wane away, 
 The sun grow dim, and fail to light up day. 
 Nature shall sink^ and time expire with age. 
 And fearful death, at length shall cea»e to rage j 
 But th' soul shall flourish in immortal ' lron». 
 The virtuous shall the streets of Heav. - 'imej 
 Unhurt lemain where elements are hr .a, 
 The ' <ck of matter, and thac.vi!^ ^ *orlds. 
 
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 NOTE.,- njr. .ci/N 
 
 
 The idta of the laittwehit lines of the foregoing 
 Poem, are taken from Addison's troffedv of 
 •'Cato;'videUcU:^ ^ ^ -^ 
 
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 «•_ 
 
 CATO'SSOWLOOUY 
 
 ON TKE IMUttHTALITT OFTHB Sfl'UIr. 
 
 -my death, my life, 
 
 .i^.,V/ 
 
 My bane, and antidote, are both before me ; 
 
 Thib'in a moment, bringa me to an end ; 
 But this, informs me I shall nerer die. 
 The soul lecured in her existence, smiles 
 Atttbe, drawn dagger— and defies it- point : 
 The stars shall fade away— the sun himself, 
 Grow dim with age— and nature sink in years ; 
 But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, 
 Unhurt, amidst the war of elements, 
 The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds." 
 
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 TO THE SHADE OF THOMAS CAMPBELL, LL.D. 
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 Her name! he' ,n /r^'T''''? '^'^^ be hyried. 
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 Aud mourn yo, ?'«. ,1 • '"■'' ^^'"'" dread-.., 
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 ScotlancTs great Bard ^nH V' *"' '''^ *°""d» f". 
 ^ "' '**'^^» and Literary Star ! 
 
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