The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-07-02
FOX THE ENQUIRER.
To TIE Uniicd States shin,
GESERAi. PIKE.


There's "a great spirit gone !"
saase:S.0s
Doomed !avour'L vesssl 20 protect and bsar,
Heroes glory. ana tt heroes nrne;
as Ger the iske-Naye speeds Thy bright career,
O ne'er forget iron, whence that favour e,ue--,
nor ever deign thy pendant broad 10 strike,
Ennobfso, thus, by .'isaison and P;ke.
Clean be thy run. then, ship. and stsuuci, s. ru.
Be"uteou' IN PeSoe, and terrible in fight;
lirave he thy mastsr--lnsu6Guea thy crew;
Thy batteries awful, aui thy banners bright
Snip spread Thy can'ass--court each Zephyr's
& y breath,
ESzd Thy great naues,ke and sveuge his DEATH
S'se thy bright pendants to the bisze oil day,
And IN hic wake of glory helm thy way!
Shade of the Hero fallen meshinks view
by valiant sT,is.t stalk amid the storm
Calan and colecici--iirrn and bold ana t-ues
Wise to project. and daring to PEE form
Blen ding at snce. each Gnty to fulfil
The soldiers proves with the chieGtain's skill!
Onward you move! the wil6.--oeds Yin. 81 frova,
with savage yele, sud savage f,er,s in arms
Their savage yeiis. thy vcllied ,,vudses druwn,
rsr'yths buE'e sounds its loud alarue--
emcs, red ard white, in Glorious unio.t sv
Seek the dark corses supplicate or die 81
While victory stoops. 70 vaour's cause inclined,
And hastes, with Roseate wreathes thy brow, 60
bind
--Dreadfd!! at bIua chymic lightnings ea.b /:
Earth, trembling, yawns, and ponderous mass.s
dash-
Cut of from life ,--(by bastard foemen, when
They dared not NEE; thee face to face like mer J
Yet. anxious only for thy pount,'s good,
With sr"iles, assuHsivc, yields thy dearest blood
-Beams the mid radiance OF a sun that's set
AND fees n dyins-noihiEs to yes,esy
| so when his lesipns gallant Julirn led
\ To pluck the dsdemfrom 6esnof: head
| Form, mad Assyrlan wilos. and hostile p.ajes.
/ From loved Athersc'S darling Schools and shRdea
Yet far behind threw every thought ct fear
And placed he roaring fygris in his rear
Sudden, amid he desu'to-y fight,
| As ON he rushed TO animate his right,
| Drssd, from the sounding bow a Pnrthtan dart
Trsnspierced the RIBS. and quiYereo st his heart
In vain, With potent hand the hero tried
/ TO wrench the deadly =apoD fror Ls ,ite;
Fres', stresms OF blood the vengefu, steel imbrre
And lie, last hset'ne. fsuered he drew
| Yet IRE las LAST, lac said with closne eye
Guiitess lived ----withOut TeFnorse die 90
Shade of ths Hero fsnrh in death, tho FAR,
| lie Thy naie rslicss Ontsrio's wave
| Md smould'riag ruins, snc the claie of wsr
| Where but the yev tree marks thy recent era7e--
! Yet, tho no column years its head aluaf,
| No figured architecture, CT fretted rcof
| Tho, ION no marble base, from truth derived
! b. ANS the bright record Gftiy worth inrcrbedo
! Yet, shall the Graphic muses. pencil tell,
| How, great, you conquered, and how great, you
| fell,
Aouian nymphs shsllpiausive strains prolons,
| 1rscs the soft et,nza and Invoke the Surg,
There tp-.oe Sylphs, hcm woodbins meads Shall
! bring.
For thee, the virgin progeny of sprag--
! While the fair Dryad, moTeswitli pensiys pein,
Saspends her hlIy.beIls, aud wesps, I'm seen.
SRDLEy.