Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-06-28

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1thea rH eorruia ION, dark, and deep like jases
Sats the Foundation o. "a sinking state;
Then syarmer Plumbers gloso ttro Satire's hsye,
IND all her smiles ere darken'd into rage
1H.-a keener dignation fires her eye,
Then fash her lghtntngs and her thunder. >
ESSAY ON SATIRE.
LOOK where we will and whatever land
Enrope's rich soil, a Africss burning sands
Whel e the wild savage hunts his wilder prey,
Or art and science pour their brightest day;
The monster Vice appears before our eyes,
In naked impudence or gay disguise.
But omit the lessec game, indignant Muse,
And to thy country turn thy nobler views.
Inflated cline! condemn'd to feel TIL extremes
OF a weak rulers philosophc dreamsi
Driv'li headlong on to ruins fateful Drinks
When will thy country feeb when will she
thinki
Wake, Muse of Satire, IN the cause oftraae,
Thou scourge of miscreants, who the laws O.
vaslei
Dart thy keen glances-- knit thy threat'ning
brows,
And hurl thine arrows at fairComnaerce' soesl
Much injui'd Commerce, 'lis thy falling
cause,
Which, from obscurity, a:sstrip,,ng draws
And were MS pow'rs but equal to his zeal,
Thy bastard foes his keen repfoach should teei
Curse of our sation, source of countless woes,
From whose dark womb pnreckon'd misery
flows:
~ Tia 1wnen
Fearlowrs osior sssildsa can paint the mourn.
full scene,
The saddening street. the desolated green;
How hungry iaborers leave their toll, and
sigh,
And sorrow droopsin each depending eye!
See the bold Sailor from the ocean torn,
His element--sissk .friendless and forlorn!
His suffering spouse the tear of anguish shed,
His starving children cry in vain for bread
The Farmer, since supporting tradevis hed,
Leaves the rude yoke, and cherries hangs his
head Z
Misfortunes fall, an unremitting shower, q
Debts follow debts--on taxes, taxes pour. !:
See in his stores his boarded produce rot,
Or sherif-sales his produce come to naught
Disheartening cares in thronging myriads
flow,
Till down he sinks to poverty and woel
Oh, ye.bright pair, the blessings of mar
kind,
Whom time has sanetion'd, and WHOM fate
has join'd
Commerce, that bears the trident Of the main,
And Agriculture, empress of the plain
Who, hand INLAND, and heay'n-directed, 60,
Diffusing gladness through the world below;
Whoe 'er the wretch, would hurl the flaming
brand,
Of dire .disurion-palsi be his handi
Like Cromwell damned toeyerlasting fame,i
Let unborn ages execrate his name.
Dark is the scene, yet darker prospects
threat.
Aud ills may follow inexperienced yet!
Oh Heaven: defend, as future seasons roll,
This western world from Bonaparte's control,
Preserve our freedom, and our rights secure,
While truth subsists, and virtue shall endured!
Lo, Austria crouches TO the tyrant's stroke,
And Rome's proud states receive the calling
yoke
Kings fall before Aim-for his sway extends,
Where'r his all subduing course he bends.
Sec Lusitania's fate--and shall we say,
Turn not our feet, that tread the selfsame
way
Must we with Belgia, and Helvetia mourn,
In vile subiectIon, abject, and forlorn?
Our laws laid PROSTATE and our freedom fed,
Our independence, boasted salor dead
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