"Then shares the haughtier son the sire's disgrace, " And crowns with greener palms the hated race. "The rock unmoved of SPARTA'S SAVIOUR-BAND "Checks the rude storm on Malea's narrow strand. "Poised on broad pennon o'er Plataea's plain

Thy genius, Greece, surveys the countless slain; "Then lifts his wreathed front, and smites his shield, "And calls his heroes to the foreign field.

"No hero heard; no patriot-chieftain rose
"To roll swift vengeance o'er his country's foes:
"Her torch aloft infuriate Discord shakes,
"Strains her red eye, and rouses all her snakes-
"The hostile banner kindred nations rear:

"In vain joint honour binds; joint toils endear:
"Each in a sister's blood embrues her hands,
"Nor prudence checks; nor nature's cry withstands.
"Far round her venomed breath the Fury spreads,
"And rears a direr crest of hydra-heads.

"What bright effulgence from the unclosing sky "With sudden radiance strikes the downcast eye? "And hark! with mutter'd curses Discord flies, "Scared Peace returns, and guilty Rancour dies. "He comes! the youth deputed from above!

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Rejoins the severed bands of Grecian love.

"With pious arms appeases yon sad ghosts "Whose pale troops linger on her mourning coasts. "The new Pelides Persia's pride o'erwhelms, "And Asia owns him thro' her thousand realms. "Bards of my country! wake the slumbering lyre, "And wing the song with his own Homer's fire "Behold! his brighteyed dawn of martial days "Of old renown transcends the noontide blaze!"

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Thus stream'd the strains, till high imperial towers
Spring from the bosom of enclasping bowers.
Then to the clamour of barbaric tongues
Yield the glad symphony and choral songs;
With zeal impetuous as they hail from far
The trophied phalanx and the conqueror's car-
Still from its crowded gates the city-train
Pours struggling forth, and deluges the plain :
With wildly devious eye at first they gaze
Where streamers chequer o'er the martial blaze
And joy and wonder mix their throbbing tides-
At length the tumult of the soul subsides.
Then with collected thought and steadier glance
They mark the leaders of the war advance,
With reverent awe survey the sons of fame
While busy murmurs buz each honour'd name,

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But nearer now the car imperial dråws—
Hushed expectation holds her stillest pause,
And while the world's young Victor passes by
The pageant kindles hope's prophetic eye:
Fair mid the sunny plain of future years
The glittering fabric of his fame appears.
In bright gradation loftier splendours rise
Till the proud summit pierce his kindred skies.

THOMAS BEDDOES.

THE END.

ERRAT A.

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