Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-09-27
From the National Lntslligencer.
ambition e Glory.
cANTo 4th.


On RuTLrs (q) plains the beams of GLORY
fell,
And shed its radiance on the mind of TELL :;
A band OF patriots (r) felt tn inspiring flame
Spread like electric fluid through their frame,
Like Heavens own arrow secretly it sped,
AND fash'd like lightning on the tyrant's
head
Darkness and gloom DER fair Helvetia (s)
lour,
Marking the hateful Geslsr's ~ ruthless
powr,
Whose base born edicts stirr'd the free born
To spurn submission, and defy control
Tell shrunk indignant from the base decree,
(u
And fate that moment set Helvetia. free
Yet in the lapse OF time new dangers rise
From breast to breast tn impetuous ardor
flies
Mongarthen's height TO- their well try'd
proves proves,
And ERLAcH's valor saves the land he loves.
Alas for Switzerland each sylvan scene,
Each towering summit deck'd with natures
green
Her cloud capt hills, her vallies once so fair,
Now sad and desolate and wild appear
Clouds DER the summit of ST. Gothard roll,
And msts and horror chill the feeling soul
Yet not such clouds as favor'd Tells escape,
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When Geser trembled on the stormy lake
No? It's the woe which mad ambition sheds,
On conquered yeomanry and hoary heads.
No longer free, past are the blissful hours
The Sariss enjoy'd within their native bow'rs
No more the Reinse de cache (r) can feelings
move,
Switzerland conquered ID bosts no more
their love.
GLORY no more shall deck their hero's name !;
With LIBERTY erpsr'd the sacred flame
(q) On the shores of the Lake of Lucerne
in Switzerland.
(r) Arnold of Melchtal, Warner Stanfach-
er and Walter Furst whose daughter Will
liam Tell had married-All ardent friends of
Liberty and who felt for the oppressed state
Oftheir country.
(s) The ancient name OF Switzerland.
(t) The t;ovcrnor OF Albert OF Austria,
whose tyranny exceeded all bounds.
(u) Gesler hung his hat on pole in Al
tori and commanded the people to pay nom
age to it as they passed Tell haughtily re
sisted the decree, was arrested, and condemn
Gu " SHoOt an 0ppGB OH ms infant SOH HCuu.
He succeeded Gesler observing he had ano
Their arrow, asked why he had two 1t was
intended for thee, tyrant," he exclaimed,
had Killed my boy"
To- A decisive battle was fought here and
Swiss liberty was placed on a firm basis
(w) Tell was seized, ana put into boat
in order to convey him to the fortress Of Kus-
mach. A storm arose which resisted the eff
forts of the boatmen-Tell, who was an ex-
Ierienced hand, was commanded to take the
hem /; he complied when, coming opposite
a small propontary, he leaped ashore, push
ed off the boat, and at the next turn shot the
tyrant. This was the only boodshed on
this memorable occasion--though every for
tress was seized and the country emancpated
) (r) A popular tune which never was play
ed in the hearing ola Swiss in foreign SER
vice, but it gave him the matade de- pays
an insurmountable desire to return homo.
IN In 1898 Switzerland was again suject-
ed to the usurpation ola tyrant-after repeat
ed battles in which they fought like men,
whose all was freedom, they yielded to fate,
and Napoleon the first as its arbiter.
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