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Dwells on the teeming champain, and endows
The fleeping grain with vigour to attire
In one bright harvest all the Pharian plains.
Thus, when Pygmalian from Phoenician Tyre
Had banish'd Freedom, with disdainful steps
Indignant Commerce, turning from the walls
Herself had rais'd, her welcome sway enlarg'd
Among the nations, fpreading round the globe
The fruits of all it's climes; Cecropian oil,
The Thracian vintage, and Panchaian gums,
Arabian spices, and the golden grain,
Which old Ofiris to his Ægypt gave,

*

And Ceres to Sicania +. Thou didst raise
Th' Ionian name, O Commerce! thou the domes
Of sumptuous Corinth, and the ample round
Of Syracuse didft people! All the wealth
Now thou affembleft from Iberia's mines,
And golden-channell'd Tagus; all the spoils
From fair Trinacria ‡ wafted; all the powers
Of conquer'd Africk's tributary realms,
To fix thy empire on the Lybian verge,
Thy native tract: the nymphs of Nyfa hail
Thy glad return, and echoing joy refounds
O'er Triton's facred waters, but in vain.
The irreversible decrees of Heaven
To far more northern regions had ordain'd
Thy lafting feat: in vain th' imperial port
Receives the gather'd riches of the world;
In vain whole climates bow beneath it's rule;
Behold the toil of centuries to Rome

It's glories yields, and mould'ring, leaves no trace
Of it's deep-rooted greatnefs; thou with tears

* Athenian. Athens was call'd Cecropia, from Cecrops it's first king.

+ Sicily.

nians.

Another name of Sicily, which was frequently ravaged by the Carthage

From

From thy extinguifh'd Carthage didft retire,

And these thy perifh'd honours long deplore.

What though rich Gades, what though polish'd Rhodes,
With Alexandria, Egypt's fplendid mart,
The learn'd Maffylians t, and Ligurian ‡ towers ;
What though the potent Hanfeatick league,
And Venice, miftrefs of the Grecian ifles,
With all the gean floods, awhile might foothe

The fad remembrance; what though, led through climes
And feas unknown, with thee th' advent'rous fons
Of Tagus pafs'd the ftormy cape, which braves
The huge Atlantick; what though Antwerp grew
Beneath thy fmiles, and thou propitious there
Didit fhower thy bleffings with unfparing hands:
Still on thy grief-indented heart imprefs'd
The great Amilcar's valour, ftill the deeds
Of Afdrubal and Mago, fill the lofs
Of thy unequal Annibal remain'd;

Till from the fandy mouths of echoing Rhine,
And founding margin of the Scheld and Maefe,
With fudden roar the angry voice of war
Alarm'd thy languor; wonder turn'd thy eye.
Lo! in bright arms a bold militia ftood,
Arrang'd for battle from afar thou faw'ft

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The fnowy ridge of Appennine, the fields
Of wild Calabria, and Pyrene's hills,
The Guadiana, and the Duro's banks,
And rapid Ebro, gath'ring all their pow'rs
To crush this daring populace. The pride
Of fiercest kings with more inflam'd revenge
Ne'er menac'd freedom; nor fince dauntless 'Greece,

*Cadiz.

Marfeilles, a Grecian colony, the most civilized, as well as the greatest trading city of ancient Gaul.

Genoa.

The Portuguese difcovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1487.

And

And Rome's ftern offspring, none hath e'er furpafs'd
The bold Batavian in his glorious toil

For liberty, or death. At once, the thought
Of long-lamented Carthage flies thy breaft,
And, ardent goddefs, thou doft fpeed to fave
The gen'rous people. Not the vernal fhow'rs,
· Diftilling copious from the morning clouds,
Defcend more kindly on the tender flow'r,
New-born and op'ning on the lap of Spring,
Than on this rifing ftate thy chearing fmile
And animating prefence; while on Spain,
Prophetick thus, thy indignation broke.

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Infatiate race! the fhame of polish'd lands!
Difgrace of Europe! for inhuman deeds
And infolence renown'd! what demon led
Thee firft to plough the undiscover'd furge,

• Which lav'd an hidden world? Whofe malice taught
• Thee first to taint with rapine and with rage,

• With more than savage thirst of blood, the arts,

By me for gentleft intercourfe ordain'd,

For mutual aids, and hofpitable ties

• From fhore to fhore? Or that pernicious hour,
Was Heaven difgufted with it's wond'rous works,
That to thy fell, exterminating hand,

• Th' immenfe Peruvian empire it refign'd,.
• And all which lordly Montezuma † sway'd ?
And com'st thou, ftrengthen'd with the fhining stores
Of that gold-teeming hemifphere, to wafte
The fmiling fields of Europe, and extend
Thy bloody fhackles o'er these happy feats

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Of liberty? Presumptuous nation! learn,

From this dire period fhall thy glories fade,

Thy flaughter'd youth fhall fatten Belgium's fands,

The Dutch.

Montezuma, Emperor of Mexico.

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And Victory against her Albion's cliffs

• Shall fee the blood-empurpl'd ocean dafh

Thy welt'ring hofts, and ftain the chalky fhore:

E'en thofe, whom now thy impious pride would bind
In fervile chains, hereafter fhall fupport

Thy weaken'd throne; when Heaven's afflicting hand
Of all thy power defpoils thee; when alone,
• Of all which e'er hath fignaliz'd thy name,
Thy infolence and cruelty remain.'

Thus, with her clouded vifage wrapp'd in frowns,
The goddess threaten'd, and the daring train
Of her untam'd militia, torn with wounds,
Defpifing fortune, from repeated foils

More fierce, and braving Famine's keenest rage,
At length through deluges of blood she led
To envied greatnefs; e'en while clam'rous Mars
With loudest clangor bade his trumpet shake
The Belgian champain, fhe their standard rear'd
On tributary Java, and the fhores

Of huge Borneo; thou, Sumatra, heard'
Her naval thunder, Ceylon's trembling fons
Their fragrant ftores of cinnamon refign'd,
And odour-breathing Ternate and Tidore
Their fpicy groves. And O, whatever coaft
The Belgians trace, where'er their pow'r is spread,
To hoary Zembla, or to Indian funs,
Still thither be extended thy renown,
O William, pride of Orange; and ador'd
Thy virtues, which disdaining life, or wealth,
Or empire, whether in thy dawn of youth,
Thy glorious noon of manhood, or the night,
The fatal night of death, no other care
Befides the publick own'd. And dear to fame

*He was affaffinated at Delf. His dying words were, Lord have mercy upon this people! See Grot. de Bell. Belg.

Be

Be thou, harmonious Douza; ev'ry Mufe,
Your laurel ftrew around this hero's urn,
Whom fond Minerva, grac'd with all her arts,
Alike in letters and in arms to shine,

A dauntless warrior, and a learned bard.
Him Spain's furrounding host for slaughter mark'd,
With maffacre yet reeking from the streets
Of blood-ftain'd Harlem: he on Leyden's tow'rs,
With Famine, his companion, wan, subdu'd
In outward form, with patient virtue stood
Superior to defpair; the heav'nly Nine

His fuff'ring foul with great examples chear'd
Of memorable bards, by Mars adorn'd
With wreaths of fame; Oeagrus + tuneful fon,
Who with melodious praise, to noblest deeds
Charm'd the Iölchian heroes, and himself
Their danger fhar'd; Tyrtæus, who reviv'd
With animating verfe the Spartan hopes;
Brave Efchylus || and Sophocles §, around.
Whofe facred brows the tragick ivy twin'd,
Mix'd with the warrior's laurel; all furpafs'd
By Douza's valour: and the gen'rous toil,
His and his country's labours foon receiv'd
Their high reward, when favouring Commerce rais'd
Th' invincible Batavians, till, rever'd
Among the mightiest, on the brightest roll

Of fame they fhone, by fplendid wealth and pow'r

Janus Douza, a famous poet, and the most learned man of his time. He commanded in Leyden, when it was fo obftinately befieged by the Spaniards in 1570. See Meurfii Athen. Bat.

falia.

Orpheus, one of the Argonauts, who fet fail from lolcos, a town in Thef

When the Spartans were greatly distressed in the Meffenian war, they applied to the Athenians for a general, who fent them the poet Tyrtæus.

Æfchylus, one of the most ancient tragick poets, who fignalized himself in the battles of Marathon and Salamis.

tions.

Sophocles commanded his countrymen, the Athenians, in feveral expedi

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