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The hour is approaching, - a terrible hour!
And Vengeance is bending her bow;
Already the clouds of the hurricane lower,
And the ro k-rending whirlwinds blow;
Back rolls the huge Ocean, hell opens below;
The floods return headlong, they sweep
The slave-cultured lands to the deep,

In a moment entombed in the horri le void,
By their Maker himself in his anger destroyed.

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"Ye Britons, who dwell where we conquered of old,

Who inherit our battle-field graves;

Shall this be the fate of the cane-planted isles,
More lovely than clouds in the west,
When the sun o'er the ocean descending in smiles, We were not, we could not be, slaves;
Sinks softly and sweetly to rest?

Though poor were your fathers, — gigantas ar !
bold,

But firm as our rocks, and as free as our waves,

No' - Father of mercy befriend the opprest; The spears of the Romans we broke,

At the voice of thy gospel of peace

May the sorrows of Africa cease ;

And slave and his master devoutly unite

To walk in thy freedom and dwell in thy light!

As homeward my weary-winged Fancy extends
Her star-lighted course through the skies,
High over the mighty Atlantic ascends,
And turns upon Europe her eyes:

We never stooped under their yoke.

In the shipwreck of nations we stood up alone, | The world was great Cæsar's, but Britain our own JAMES M

ADDRESS TO THE OCEAN.

O THOU vast Ocean! ever-sounding Sea '
Thou symbol of a drear immensity

Ah me what new prospects, new horrors arise? Thou thing that windest round the sold wel! I see the war-tempested flood

All foaming, and panting with blood;
The panic-struck Ocean in agony roars,
Rebounds from the battle, and flies to his shores.

For Britannia is wielding the trident to-day,
Consuming her foes in her ire,

And hurling her thunder with absolute sway
From her wave-ruling chariots of fire.

Like a huge animal, which, downward hur mi
From the black clouds, lies weltering and
Lashing and writhing till its strength be
Thy voice is like the thunder, and thy sie
Is as a giant's slumber, loud and deep
Thou speakest in the east and in the west
At once, and on thy heavily laden breast
Fleets come and go, and shapes that have r
Or motion, yet are moved and meet in str,

She triumphs; the winds and the waters con- The earth has naught of this no chan est

spire

To spread her invincible name;

The universe rings with her fame :

Ruffles its surface, and no spirits dare
Give answer to the tempest-wakene-i air,
But o'er its wastes the weakly tenants rat

But the cries of the fatherless mix with her At will, and wound its bosom as they g

praise,
Ever the same, it hath no ebb, no fl w
And the tears of the widow are shed on her bays. But in their stated rounds the sasins -

And pass like visions to their wonted l. -
O Britain, dear Britain the Land of my birth; And come again, and vanish, the yout
O Isle most enchantingly fair'
Thou Pearl of the Ocean! thou Gem of the Earth! And Winter always winds his sallen horn,
O my Mother, my Mother, beware,

For wealth is a phantom, and empire a snare!
O, let not thy birthright be sold
For reprobate glory and gold !

Thy distant dominions like wild graftings shoot,
They weigh down thy trunk, they will tear up
thy root,-

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When the wild Autumn, with a look for, th
Dies in his stormy manhood, and the sapra
Weep, and flowers sicken, when the vilmer ?" en
O, wonderful thou art, great element,
And fearful in thy spleeny humors bent,
And lovely in repose thy summer form
Is beautiful, and when thy silver waves
Make music in earth's dark and winding ar

The root of thine oak, O my country! that I love to wander on thy pebbied beach,

stands

Rock-planted and flourishing free;

Marking the sunlight at the evening hour,
And hearken to the thoughts thy waters tea họ -

Its branches are stretchedo'er the uttermost lands, Eternity Eternity and Power
And its shadow eclipses the sea.

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