VI.

"Around him Sydneys, Hampdens throng,"
His ardent philofophic tongue,
Can Roman zeal inspire;

The Amphyctyon Council, hand in hand,
(Like the immortal Theban band)
"Catch his electric fire."

Penn's patriarch soul deserts the skies,
The spirit moves-his children rife
Impatient for the fight,

The cover'd brethren feek the Lord,
Refume the abdicated fword,

Dubb'd Warriors by § new light!

There a flame

VII.

Broke out, that clear'd, confum'd, renew'd the land:

Illuftrious was the fcene-Nor Greece, nor Rome
Indignant bursting from a tyrant's chain,

White full of me, each agitated foul

Strung every nerve, and flam'd in every eye,
Had e'er beheld fuch light and heat combin'd!
Such heads and hearts-Such fervent zeal, led on
By calm majestic wisdom, taught its course
What nuifance to devour, and bent fincere
To clear the weedy ftate, restore the laws,
And for the future to fecure their fway.

THOMSON'S LIBERTY.

§ The noble prophet feems to treat the carnal efforts of the

Penn

VII.

"Ev'n clergy preach the right divine,
-In arms on Roxbury hill to fhine,
And loud Hofannah's fing;

With bold enthufiaftic hearts,
They spurn all minifterial arts,

-But pray for Britain's king.

Can fleets or troops fuch spirits tame,
Altho' they view their cities flame,
And defolate their coaft?

'Midft diftant wilds they'll find a home,
Far as the untam'd Indians roam,
And freedom's | lux'ry boaft.

VIII.

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"See Corfic's hardy fons betray'd" Whilft abject Britain shrinks afraid,

And

Pennsylvania quakers in the caufe of freedom, with a reprehenfible levity.

"We can retire beyond the reach of your navy, and without any fenfible diminution of the neceffaries of life, enjoy a luxury, which from that period you will want ;-the luxury of being free."- -The Addrefs of the twelve United Provinces, to the inhabitants of Great Britain.

Lord Shelburne's dignified and manly conduct, in the

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And drops her conquering lance;
No more the + fuppliant states she faves,
But yields each generous people slaves,
"To tyranny-and France!"

"Our cringing statesmen kneel (tho' late)"
To kifs the hands of conquering Kate,
And trembling speak their fear;
She deigns to raise them from the duft;
-Like mild § Elisha now they trust
"In a fhe Ruffian bear."

IX.

America, with juft difdain,

Will burft degenerate Britain's chain,

And

And gloriously aspire ;

I fee new Lockes and Camdens rise,
Whilft other Newtons read the skies,
And Miltons wake the lyre.

Behold her blazing flag || unfurl'd,
To awe and rule the western world,
And teach prefumptuous kings,
Tho' lull'd by fervile flattery's dream,
The people's power's alone fupreme,
From whom all power springs.

X.

Heaven's choiceft gifts enrich her plain,
The red'ning orange, fwelling grain,
Her genial funs refine;

For her the filken infects toil,

The olive teems with floods of oil,
And glows the purple vine.

Her prowess Albion's empire shakes,
Her thund'ring cataracts, ocean'd lakes,
Display great nature's hand;

And Europe fees, with dread surprise,
Ethereal tow'ring fpirits rife,

To rule the wondrous land.

The Americans are collecting a naval force.

Verbum ardens.

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KING'S SPEECH.

XI,

.XI.

Why burst from British tars those sighs,
Where victory bends, with weeping eyes,
O'er gallant + Saunders' bier ?
Near Wolfe erect his trophy'd buft,
Savile embalms his facred duft,
And Barré drops a tear.

His generous ardour only rofe
Against his country's-freedom's foes;
Thofe glorious days are past:

A coward's orders to perform
Lo! yon fea Alva rides the storm,
And drives the furious blaft.

XII.

Brighten the chain, the wampum tie,
Those painted chiefs § raife war's fell cry,

And

Thefe fudden, unexpected digreffions, are conceived in

the true ftile of prophecy and lyric poetry.

Vide Lowth's Prælectiones Hebraice, and Warburton
Paffim.

There is an obfcurity bordering on the fublime in this part of the prophecy :-Perhaps it fhadows out the nomina tion of Lord Howe to the command of the fleet, under the anfpices of Lord George Germain, now Lord Viscount Sack ville.

• § The event has juftified the prediction,