Here generous Commerce spreads her liberal hand,
And scatters foreign blessings round the land.—
Shall meagre Mammon, or proud lust of sway,
Reverse these scenes—will Heaven permit the day:
Shall in this Æra all our hopes expire,
And weeping freedom from her fanes retire?
Here shall the Tyrant still our peace pursue,
From the pain'd eye-brow drink the vital dew?
Not nature's barrier wards our Father's foe,
Seas roll in vain, and boundless oceans flow.—
STAY, Pharaoh, stay, that impious hand forbear,
Nor tempt the genius of our fouls too far ;
How oft, ungracious ! in they thankless stead,
'Mid scenes of death, our generous youth have bled ;
When the proud Gaul they mightiest powers repell'd,
And drove your legions trembling from the field,
We rent the laurel from the victor's brow,
And round your temples taught the wreath to grow,*
Say, when they slaughter'd bands the
desart dy'd,
Where the lone Ohio rolls her gloomy tide,
Whose dreary banks their wafting bones inshrine,
What arm aveng'd them ?--thankless ! was it thing
? [dagger symbol]†
B
But
*The taking of
Louisbourg in
1745, by General PEPPERELL, with the help of
a British squadron.
[dagger symbol] The same year the King's troops were surprized near the banks of the
Ohio. A body of French were repulsed at an assault of
the Provincial
lines at the Westward.