And the Falcon and the Cerberus make every bosom thrill,

With gun and shell, and drum and bell, and boatswain's whistle shrill :

But deep and wider grows the trench, as spade and mattock ply;

For we have to cope with fearful odds, and the time is drawing nigh !

4. Up with the pine-tree banner! Our gallant PRESCOTT 5 stands

Amid the plunging shells and shot, and plants it with his hands.

Up with the shout! for PUTNAM6 comes upon his reeking bay,

With bloody spur and foamy bit, in haste to join the

fray;

And POMEROY, with his snow-white hairs, and face all flush and sweat,

Unscathed by French and Indian, wears a youthful

glory yet.

5. But thou whose soul is glowing in the summer of thy

years,

Unvanquishable WARREN, thou, the youngest of thy peers,7

Wert born and bred, and shaped and made, to act a patriot's part,

And dear to us thy presence is as heart's blood to the

6. Hark! from the town a trumpet! The barges at the

wharf

Are crowded with the living freight; and now they're

pushing off:

With clash and glitter, trump and drum, in all its

bright array,

Behold the splendid sacrifices move slowly o'er the

bay!

And still and still the barges fill, and still across the deep,

Like thunder-clouds along the sky, the hostile 'transports sweep.

7. And now they're forming at the Point; and now the lines advance:

We see beneath the sultry sun their polished bayonets

glance;

We hear a-near the throbbing drum, the bugle-challenge

ring;

Quick bursts and loud the flashing cloud, and rolls from wing to wing;

But on the height our bulwark stands, 'tremendous in

its gloom

As sullen as a tropic sky, and silent as a tomb.

8. And so we waited till we saw, at scarce ten rifles' length,

The old vindictive Saxon spite, in all its stubborn

strength;

When sudden, flash on flash, around the jagged rampart burst

From every gun the livid light upon the foe accursed.

Then quailed a monarch's might before a free-born

people's ire;

9

Then drank the sward the veteran's life, where swept

the yeoman's fire.

9. Then, staggered by the shot, we saw their 'serried columns reel,

And fall, as falls the bearded rye beneath the reaper's steel;

And then arose a mighty shout that might have waked the dead

"Hurrah! they run! the field is won! HURRAH! the foe is fled !"

And every man hath dropped his gun to clutch a neighbour's hand,

As his heart kept praying all the while for home and native land.

10. Thrice on that day we stood the shock of thrice a thousand foes,

And thrice that day within our lines the shout of victory rose;

And though our swift fire slackened then, and, reddening in the skies,

We saw from Charlestown's roofs and walls the flamy columns rise,

Yet, while we had a cartridge left, we still maintained the fight,

Nor gained the foe one foot of ground upon that blood-stained height.

11. What though for us no laurels bloom, and o'er the nameless brave

No sculptured trophy, scroll, or hatch records a warrior grave!

What though the day to us was lost!-upon that deathless page

The everlasting charter stands for every land and age!

12. For man hath broke his 'felon bonds, and cast them in

the dust,

And claimed his heritage divine, and justified the

trust;

While through his rifted prison-bars the hues of freedom pour,

O'er every nation, race, and clime, on every sea and shore,

Such glories as the patriarch viewed, when, 'mid the darkest skies,

He saw above a ruined world the Bow of Promise 10

rise.

COZZENS.

cope, contend.

fel-on, slavish.

frowned, looked stern; threatening. hatch, hatchment; coat of arms.

looms, looks large.

mat-tock, a kind of pick-axe.

ser-ried, close; dense.

sin-ew-y, strong.

sul-len, gloomy.

1 Min'ute men. Men ready to When the revolutionary war broke out march at a minute's notice.

he was made a major-general, and proved a brave and able leader. Pomeroy and Warren were also American officers.

7 The youngest of thy peers. — A man is not one of his own peers, and therefore cannot be the youngest of them. The meaning is, younger than any of his comrades.

43.-GEORGE III. (PART II.)

1. On the death of the King and Queen of France, war was declared against the new Republic by England, Austria, Prussia, and other States. The English took Toulon; but they were driven back by the French under Napoleon Buonaparte, a

NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.

Corsican officer,

who soon drew to

Bo himself the attention of all Europe

by his skill as a general.

2. He drove the Austrian forces out of Italy, and forced Prussia to sue for peace. Thereafter he sailed across the Mediterranean with a great fleet and army to invade Egypt, in

tending, if possible, to reach and conquer the Indian Empire. After taking possession of Malta3 on his way, he landed at Alexandria, marched to Cairo,5 and gained the Battle of the Pyramids.

1798

3. But his fleet was pursued by Nelson, the great English Admiral, and was utterly defeated in Aboukir Bay, at the famous Battle of the Nile. In this battle, which was fought in the night, nine French ships were taken, and two

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