For them is Sorrow's purest sigh O'er Ocean's heaving bosom sent: In vain their bones unburied lie, All earth becomes their monument! A tomb is theirs on every page, For them the voice of festal mirth Grows hushed, their name the only sound; While deep Remembrance pours to Worth The goblet's tributary round. A theme to crowds that knew them not, Lamented by admiring foes, Who would not share their glorious lot? Who would not die the death they chose? And, gallant Parker! thus enshrined Thy life, thy fall, thy fame shall be; And early valour, glowing, find A model in thy memory. But there are breasts that bleed with thee In woe, that glory cannot quell; And shuddering hear of victory, Where one so dear, so dauntless, fell. Where shall they turn to mourn thee less? When cease to hear thy cherished name? Time cannot teach forgetfulness, While Grief's full heart is fed by Fame. Alas! for them, though not for thee, They cannot choose but weep the more; Deep for the dead the grief must be, Who ne'er gave cause to mourn before. XXXVII. NAPOLEON'S FAREWELL. 1. FAREWELL to the Land, where the gloom of my Glory Arose and o'ershadowed the earth with her nameShe abandons me now,-but the page of her story, The brightest or blackest, is filled with my fame. I have warred with a world which vanquished me only When the meteor of Conquest allured me too far; I have coped with the Nations which dread me thus lonely, The last single Captive to millions in war! 2. Farewell to thee, France!-when thy diadem crowned me I made thee the gem and the wonder of earth,— But thy weakness decrees I should leave as I found thee, Decayed in thy glory, and sunk in thy worth. Oh! for the veteran hearts that were wasted Instrife with the storm, when their battles were won— |