Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-10-25

Z fsThe following Extracts taken from the above
work, as a specimen of its general merritt
sLamented MooRr! how loy'd, how grse'd vert
Thou
VIVA! air majestic dazzled on thy brow
BY genius raised, and by ambition fired,
To die distinguished, to live admired,
In battle brilliant, as in council grave:
Stern TO encounter, but humane to save
Virtue and valour in thy bosom strove,
Which most should claim our homage or Our love.
In rxEx they how'd without the pulse Of art,
The fhyobbing hfeslOot OF thy fervid heart -
While, warm from Nature, painting Honour drew
That vital instinet, Heaven imparts to few -
That pride Of arms, which prompts the brave design
THAT grace Of raul, which makes the byaye doine
" His heart elate, with modest vaour bold,
Beat with fond rage, to vie with chiefs of old
sreat by resolves, yet by example warmed,
HInsELr the model of his glory formed,
4 glowing trait from every chief he caught;
Ne paus'd like FABlUS, and ike CESAR fought.
His ardent hope surveyed the heights Of fame,
Deep on it's rocks, to grave soldiers name;
And Ter its cliffs to bid the banner wave
"A BaIToN TIGRTs TO coNoUER AND TO SAVE.
"On martial ground, the school of heroes, taught
he studied battles, where campaigns were fought
BY science led, he traced each scene of fame,
Where war had left stone without dnanse.
Mills, streams, and plains, bore one extended chart
OF wsrriour deeds, and showed Of arms the art.
The tactick canvass all its love revealed,
TO seize the moment, aud dispose the field
Mere, still and desperate, the midnight pass,
Gouch'd Ambush listened in the deep morass;
There, Skill, opposed by Fortune, shaped its way,
With prompt decision, and with firm array;
Mere, paused the fight, and there the contest rayed
4 squadron routed, or an empire saved
Inspired fields, with trophied interest graced,
Ne sighed for glory, where he mused from taste.
Tor high emprise bis dazzling helm plumed,
And all the polished patriot-hero bloomed
Armed as he strobe, his gloryng country saw.
That fame was virtue, and ambition law
In HIN behold, with fond delight, conspire
Her Ntibaro's fortune and her Sidney's fire.
Like CAIvI's rock, with cefts abrupt deformed,
His path to fame to,ed up the breach he stormed;
Till DER the clouds the victor chief was seen,
Sublime in terrour, and in height serene.
"His equal mind so well could triumph greet,
He gave to conquest charms that soothed defeat.
ahe battle done-hs brow, with thought o'ercast,
Benign as mercy, smiled on perls past
Ihe deatl-choaked fosse the battered WALL inspired
A sense, that sought him, from the field retired.
Suspiring pity touched that godlike heart,
To which no peril could dsmay impart
And melting pearls in thai stern eye could shine.
That lghtened courage down the thund'ring line.
30 mounts the sEA-BIRD in the Borea sky,
And sits where sleeps in horrid ruin lie
1ho' warning whrlwnds curl the Norway seas,
And the rocks trepble, and the torrents freeze;
Yet is the fleece, BY Beauty's bosom prest,
ahe down, that warns this sroRA-REAT Erpxs's
breast -
Mid floods of frost, where Winter smtes the deep,
Are hedg'd the plumes on which the Grace. sleep"