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Like him of noble birth and noble mind;
By ladies, meek-eyed women without fear;
And wanderers of the street, to whom is dealt
The bread which without industry they find.

XII.

O'ER the wide earth, on mountain and on plain,
Dwells in the affections and the soul of man
A Godhead, like the universal PAN ;

But more exalted, with a brighter train :
And shall his bounty be dispensed in vain,
Showered equally on city and on field,
And neither hope nor steadfast promise yield
In these usurping times of fear and pain?
Such doom awaits us. Nay, forbid it Heaven!
We know the arduous strife, the eternal laws
To which the triumph of all good is given,
High sacrifice, and labour without pause,

Even to the death :-else wherefore should the eye
Of man converse with immortality?

XIII.

ON THE FINAL SUBMISSION OF THE TYROLESE.

Ir was a moral end for which they fought;

Else how, when mighty Thrones were put to shame,

but, on the second occasion, without success. When the French, on first approaching the Town, demanded, with laconic insolence, its capitulation, Palafox gave the answer now grown into a proverb-Guerra al cuchillo"War to the knife."

Could they, poor Shepherds, have preserved an aim,
A resolution, or enlivening thought?

Nor hath that moral good been vainly sought;
For in their magnanimity and fame

Powers have they left, an impulse, and a claim
Which neither can be overturned nor bought.
Sleep, Warriors, sleep! among your hills repose !
We know that ye, beneath the stern control
Of awful prudence, keep the unvanquished soul:
And when, impatient of her guilt and woes,
Europe breaks forth; then, Shepherds! shall ye rise
For perfect triumph o'er your Enemies.

XIV.

HAIL, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye
We can approach, thy sorrow to behold,
Yet is the heart not pitiless nor cold;
Such spectacle demands not tear or sigh.
These desolate remains are trophies high
Of more than martial courage in the breast
Of peaceful civic virtue: they attest
Thy matchless worth to all posterity.

Blood flowed before thy sight without remorse ;
Disease consumed thy vitals; War upheaved
The ground beneath thee with volcanic force :
Dread trials! yet encountered and sustained
Till not a wreck of help or hope remained,
And law was from necessity received.

XV.

SAY, what is Honour ?-'Tis the finest sense
Of justice which the human mind can frame,
Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,

And guard the way of life from all offence
Suffered or done. When lawless violence
Invades a Realm, so pressed that in the scale*
Of perilous war her weightiest armies fail,
Honour is hopeful elevation,-whence

Glory, and triumph. Yet with politic skill
Endangered States may yield to terms unjust;
Stoop their proud heads, but not unto the dust-
A Foe's most favourite purpose to fulfil :
Happy occasions oft by self-mistrust
Are forfeited; but infamy doth kill.

XVI.

THE martial courage of a day is vain,
An empty noise of death the battle's roar,
If vital hope be wanting to restore,

Or fortitude be wanting to sustain,

Armies or kingdoms. We have heard a strain
Of triumph, how the labouring Danube bore
A weight of hostile corses: drenched with gore
Were the wide fields, the hamlets heaped with slain.

* A kingdom doth assault, and in the scale.-Edit. 1815.

Yet see (the mighty tumult overpast)
Austria a Daughter of her Throne hath sold!
And her Tyrolean Champion we behold

Murdered, like one ashore by shipwreck cast,
Murdered without relief. Oh! blind as bold,
To think that such assurance can stand fast!

*

XVII.

BRAVE Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight
From Prussia's timid region. Go, and rest
With heroes, 'mid the islands of the Blest,
Or in the fields of empyrean light.

A meteor wert thou crossing a dark night:
Yet shall thy name, conspicuous and sublime,
Stand in the spacious firmament of time,
Fixed as a star: such glory is thy right.
Alas! it may not be for earthly fame
Is Fortune's frail dependant; yet there lives
A Judge, who, as man claims by merit, gives;
To whose all-pondering mind a noble aim,
Faithfully kept, is as a noble deed;

In whose pure sight all virtue doth succeed.

* Schill was a Prussian Major of Hussars, who made an attempt, even without the commands of his King, for the liberation of his country from the domination of the French. He threw himself into Stralsund, where fighting he was slain in 1809.

XVIII.

*

CALL not the royal Swede unfortunate,
Who never did to Fortune bend the knee;
Who slighted fear; rejected steadfastly

Temptation; and whose kingly name and state
Have 'perished by his choice, and not his fate!'
Hence lives He, to his inner self endeared;
And hence, wherever virtue is revered,

He sits a more exalted Potentate,
Throned in the hearts of men.

Should Heaven ordain

That this great Servant of a righteous cause
Must still have sad or vexing thoughts to endure,
Yet may a sympathising spirit pause,

Admonished by these truths, and quench all pain
In thankful joy and gratulation pure.

XIX.

Look now on that Adventurer † who hath paid
His vows to Fortune; who, in cruel slight
Of virtuous hope, of liberty, and right,
Hath followed wheresoe'er a way was made
By the blind Goddess,-ruthless, undismayed;
And so hath gained at length a prosperous height,

*Gustavus IV.

He favored the French Republic, but opposed the pretensions of Napoleon. He was deposed by his subjects in 1809. † Napoleon Buonaparte.

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