Favour’d of heav’n, awhile my speech attend:
On brighter visions now unclose thine eyes,
Again shall Europe’s realms before thee rise.
Of this great drama mark the closing scene,
Of wild ambition see th’ appointed end,
Tho’ conquest and success its steps attend,
Add pow’r awhile its crimes from vengeance screen.
The day of recompence will come, tho’ late,
For justice sleeps not, tho’ she long delay
T’ assert her rights, and re-assume her sway,
Time will the wisdom of her plans unfold,
And these events to future years relate
That lawless power has a determin’d date,
Now say what other scenes thy joyful eyes behold:-
” My eyes behold a new and lovely scene,”
(With transport in his looks the seer replied,)
” Once hostile armies by each others side
In friendly bands exchanging looks of peace-
I see along the borders of the Seine,
Illustrious kings, and chiefs renown’d, convene,
To sheath the sword and bid war’s discord cease.
” On a lone isle environ’d by the sea,
Much less than that small isle that gave him birth,
I see the mighty troubler of the earth,
Who could not rest till Europe was his own,
A banish’d exile from the world is he,
Who thought that men were born his slaves to be,
And vainly dreamt that world was made for him alone.
” Rejoice ye nations, now the world is freed!
For he, whose pastime whose delight was war,
To whom t’ was joy to spread destruction far,
The great destroyer’s dreadful reign is o’er,
The end of all his triumphs is decreed,
Beneath his sword no more shall kingdoms bleed:
His iron sceptre now shall rule the world no more,
” Dethroned tyrant, where is now thy power?
Where now thy empire o’er a conquer’d world?
From thy high state by speedy vengeance hnrl’d
Where now thy dreams of everlasting fame!
Thy voice commands the vanquish’d world no more,
Thy crown, thy empire’s vanish’d in an hour,
And nothing left thee now but a dishonour’d name.
” On distant, cold Archangell’s utmost shore-
Where the swift Danube pours its mighty tide
‘Mid spacious cities rang’d along its side,
Amid dark forests of Norwegian pines,
Where down steep rocks the foaming Cat’racts pour-
And where Mont Blanc’s stupendous summit hoar,
O’erlooks Helvetia’s vales, adorn’d with blushing vines.
“On lone Montserrat’s rocky turrets bare-
And the vast Appenine’s extensive chain,
Which frown o’er many a fair Italian plain,
Beneath a cloudless sky extending wide,-
Their rescu’d standards let the nations rear,
And plant the flag of independence there,
Firm and unmov’d as rocks for ever to abide.
” From Europe’s various lands of every tongue,-
From lofty palaces, and lowly cells,
From sterile wastes and lands where plenty dwells-
From peopled cities, and from spacious plains-
Let all her nations raise one general song,
Raise the glad voice of joy, a stranger long
And all their mingled tongues repeat the strains.
” Borne on the winds, let the glad tidings fly
From the drear confines of the artic pole,
To where the Ganges’ spreading waters roll
In many a sweep Hindostian’s plains among;
To where the tow’ring Andes meet the sky-
Let murmuring streams and echoing rocks reply,
And ocean’s mighty voice the joyful strains prolong.
” Bend from the skies ye spirits of the dead,
Who nobly toil’d through many a year, to save
Your country’s rights and freedom from the grave,
And witness universal joy prevail,
Th’ auspicious day is come for which you bled,
Blest freedom is restor’d and war is fled,
Join in the general song returning peace to hail.
” Britannia, long the suffering nation’s friend,
Thy troops assisted, thy example fir’d,
Thy dauntless fortitude their zeal inspir’d;
Now they are free, another task be thine,
The cause of injur’d Afric to defend,
Plead for her rights and may success attend
Thy efforts, that her sons may in the chorus join.”
(Isabella Lickbarrow)
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