Page:The American Revolution (scriptural style).djvu/399

This page needs to be proofread.

COLUMBIAD.

Refclv'd alldoubis, and rcitivcrplrits tame; Biirgoyns appall'd with fcencs of mighry woe, A herald Tent the terras cf pe^ce to know : Gatci evcr-generous — and truly brave, Kis foul heroic — 'RifiiM the foe to fave; Ananfwer fent, clotb'v? hi the garb of pcscc j i?«r^c J;-'^ well pka^*d, conlcnts the w»r faall cenfc. The captive foe from fir3: to kfl v. ere fouud, Ten tho'ifaad fouls, upan »,he hoil^le ground. Thus funk Great Bruaiu's formklabW name, Foreverrazed "^lonithe book ofFaiue.

CANTO X.

O TERN Wirter now in n.y fetters bound i The rapid ftreanis, and pav'd tte fertile ground j The chief til-jswar-.'il fjme hteiter to prepare, For the brave hofl, — bis fird prevailing care. At Valley-Forge he trac'd a f^acious cairp; ^Twasrifing ground, aloof frcni noifome damp; In uncouth liuts, form'd from the Deighb'rhig woods They fearlefs Hept, and brav'd the v.hitry floods. Fierce norihern blafls blew howling all around; The fnovvs defcend and whiten all the ground.

Thus far'd the ni^n, the bulwarks of the land, Nor on2 that murnvjr'dr.t their chief's command i Chearful their leader's call they all obey; Secure each pais, and toil from day to day. 'Twas here the invigorating ildings came, Kgw royal Lewis back'd Columbia's claim I