His thorns with ftreamers of continual praise? We too are friends to loyalty. We love We truft him not too far. King though he be, And king in England too, he may be weak, And vain enough to be ambitious still; Or covet more than freemen chufe to grant : You You the regardless author of its woes. We, for the fake of liberty, a king; You chains and bondage, for a tyrant's fake. In reason, is judicious, manly, free; Yours, a blind instinct, crouches to the rod, Whose freedom is by fuff'rance, and at will Who lives, and is not weary of a life- The state that strives for liberty, though foil'd, And forc'd t' abandon what fhe bravely fought, Deferves at least applaufe for her attempt, Not often unfuccefsful: pow'r ufurp'd Is weakness when oppos'd; confcious of wrong, 'Tis pufillanimous and prone to flight. But flaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the conteft calls for; fpirit, ftrength, The fcorn of danger, and united hearts, The fureft prefage of the good they seek.* Then fhame to manhood, and opprobrious more To France than all her loffes and defeats, Old or of later date, by fea or land, * The author hopes that he fhall not be cenfured for unneceffary warmth upon fo interesting a fubject. He is aware that it is become almost fashionable to ftigmatize such sentiments as no better than empty declamation; but it is an ill fymptom, and peculiar to modern times. Her Her house of bondage, worse than that of old There's not an English heart that would not leap In forging chains for us, themselves were free. His zeal for her predominance within No narrow bounds; her caufe engages him There dwell the most forlorn of human kind, There, like the vifionary emblem seen By him of Babylon, life ftands a stump, And And filletted about with hoops of brass, Still lives, though all its pleasant boughs are gone. And ever, as the fullen found is heard, Still to reflect, that though a joyless note Ten thousand rovers in the world at large Its long delay, feels ev'ry welcome stroke To turn purveyor to an overgorg'd And |