Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-08-30
From the National Intelligencer.
AMBITION AND GLORY.
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When Cruelty and Rapine scour'd the land,
And superstition way'd her furious brand,
Trace we the time. Nor let the timid muse,
Though weak she strike the chords, her aid
refuse.
Retracing centuries which ebbing time
Has wrap'd in doubt and mystery sublime,
Say, We who love to scan th'historic page,
And mark the lapse of time from age to age;
Ne who can feel and weep for human woe;
Swells not your heart with an indignant glow
Offeeling whilst we read the baleful scroll
Which teens with blood, and strife, from pole
to pole?
Dark Desolation, thy demoniac track,
We note in scenes remote, and times far back,
And, still unsated, view thee stride the globe,
Ger nature spreading WARS ensanguin'd
robe
And Discord, thy precursor in his flight
From dens of darkness, the abode of night,
With pestiential vapors taints the heart,
And man 'gainst man still points the deadly
dart.
Yet worse than all, that curse of human race,
ambition shines, in GLoRy's borrowed grace
Still tn historian stains his ample page,
Recording deeds of blood and acts of rage
Yes though beam of heavily light is shed,
And radiant Truth through every cline has
spread,
Though Heavn in mercy has reveald its grace
Forbidding man its image to deface,
Vet, yet, the murd'ring tribe in guilt array'd,
Exhausting worlds, pursue their bloody trade.
When Macedonia's Mailman" led his horde,
The fate of millions hung upon his sword !;
Around him ragd the madd'ning din of war,
And Conquests crimson banner wavd afar
"a Where Hellespontus rolls his silver tide,
The ullmannd boats its swelling waves di-
vide.
Thence mad Ambition takes its hayward
course
Force
And Philips daring son his armies pours,
On Asia's fertile plains and peaceful shores.
tb) Darius countless legions melt away,
Devoted victims to impetuous sway.
From cline to cline whilst Alexander bore
His floating banners, dipp'd in human gore,
IS TO fields OF death infuriate warriors led"
And millions at the shrine OF Madness bled.
WELDING the wretched multitude at WILL
AT his command they march, they fight, they
kill
For them arise no storied urn or bust,
No honor marks where sleeps Ptebejars dust;
But him who violates all human laws, =
On him the cringing world bestows applause.
For general suff rings rear'd no monumental
brass,
The many rank not in tn heroic class.
Vain world thy proud distinctions soon must
cease,
And in another 1oho will be at peace ?
Not those, who only boast the conq'rors
wreath
Not "a &c, who sell their fellow men to death
Not tb5se, who deaf to conscience rear
uaHe,
Fr.ttca IA blood, and garnished by fame
Ia Now the Dardaneles rendered famous
by the de.th of Legnder, who, lurd by his
love for Hero beautiful prIestess of Venus
at SesLos, used to cross it by torch-light,
held from a tower on the opposite shore
One tempestuous night he found watery
grave, and Hero precipitated herself after
him
10 Alexander invaded Persia to punish
Darius, because his ancestors warred against
the Greeks According to Diodorus, the
Persian army was 100000 strong The Ma
cedonians aid not exceed 10000 He passed
the Granicus, river in Bythynia, and de-
feated them. At lssus, on the confines of
Syria, the Persians lost 100000 foot and
10000 horse Justin Curtius relate that
Alexander did not lose 200 men and horse in
battle, and that the wounded were very few.
This was murder on a grand scale. If this
be true, and the numbers of each army cor
rect, every Macedonian must have killed
more than three Persians. And this butcher
in gross is called HERO.
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