Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ...that he early felt the disgrace which would inevitably attach to an indulgence in this, the subtlest and most pernicious of the various passions that lie in wait to seduce the indolent, --involving so frequently within its vortex the peace Nor marvel--to its pride That thus its gifts each happy Influence brings, --The tree a thousand winters has defied, And bloomed unwithered through a thousand springs. I saw its verdurous forehead mate the skies, Ere the first William ploughed my azure breast, And on my banks from Normandy arise Fresh shoots, with other flowers, boughs, fruitage drest, --Numerous as grain on Autumn's threshing-floor, Stars in the heavens, or sands on the smooth shore. CUORl'S. Midst these flowers what nectared sweetness, Midst these boughs what fruit divine, Charm, in William's sage discreetness, In brave Edward's prowess shine! Midst these flowers, Sec. That One, my Capital, As with another mart, has amplified, Where now, in ornamental pomp o'er all, Spires, and gay domes, and villas, are descried: This One, my antique trident when he swayed, Late raised my name in glory to the stars, And, borne to battle o'er the floods, displayed Innate the valour of the Roman Mars. Yet 'tis their generous aim, not less avowed, To shield the weak, as to abase the proud. CHORUS. For beneath their spread pavilion, If a whirlwind sweep the land, Threatening wreck to many a million, Safe the cherished people stand. For beneath, &c. Nor meaner be the praise Of that thrice reverenced name--that Matron shrined In the world's sympathies, whose love could raise, In the chill spite of each ungentle wind, and prosperity of families, prostrating before the wretched A.D. 1700. lust of gain, the body, soul, and spirit of its unhappy victim, and
