But thine has been imputed blame, Avails it thee, if one devours, Tyrants who pull'd those monsters down, Far other shone fair Freedom's hand, On thee yet foams the preacher's rage, Tears stream adown the martyr's tomb ; Thy thousands strew the plain. These had no charms to please the sense, To win the Muse's throng: Unknown, unsung, unmark’d they lie; Thy foes, a frontless band, invade; And yield up half the right. Ev'n Locke beams forth a mingled ray, Hence are the motley systems fram'd, Wise nature mocks the wrangling herd; While law the royal agent moves, But change, or cease th' inspiring choice, Vol. XIII. F Shall then the wretch, whose dastard heart Shrinks at a tyrant's nobler part, And only dares betray; With reptile wiles, alas! prevail, Where force, and rage, and priest-craft fail, To pilfer pow'r away? O shall the bought, and buying tribe, So Indian murd'rers hope to gain The pow'rs, and virtues of the slain, "Avert it, Heav'n! you love the brave, "You hate the treach'rous, willing slave, "The self-devoted head. "Nor shall an hireling's voice convey "That sacred prize to lawless sway, "For which a nation bled." Vain pray'r, the coward's weak resource! Propitious Heaven bestows. But ne'er shall flame the thund'ring sky, Before their weaker foes. In names there dwell no magic charms, Unloos'd our fathers' band: Say, Greece and Rome! if these should fail, What names, what ancestors avail, To save a sinking land? Far, far from us such ills shall be, Whose title speaks a People's choice, ODE II. ON TRUE GREATNESS. BY THE REV. MR. HUDSON. LET who will climb the towery steep Below, the pitchy pinnace rides : Dash'd down the pointed rocks, the rash unfortunate. Mine be the low and level way, Amid the quiet vale to stray. Safe in some sylvan lodge to dwell, And lull'd by the clear stream that speeds By shallow fords to rustling reeds, And small lakes, fring'd with homely asphodel. There sits the calm, the rural sage, With nature's volume fair in view; And meditates the shining page Replete with wonders ever new: While Wisdom points on either hand, Where plants, and herbs, and flow'rets stand |