The Wilmingtonian., 1823-10-02
FP0lH1aaRsye
YMe Age OF HronZe,
BYLORD BYRON.
Continued.


vikere Spain was once SYNONYMOUS with crime' n
fbe re Cortes' and Pizarro's banner flew; K
H. ;nfap, world retleems her name of " New"
It's the old aspiration brea,hed afresh,
IA kindle souls within degraded Hesl, {
A,ch as repulsed the Persian from the shore
Hhere Greece. was-No! size still is Greece once
F# more
he common cause makes myriads of one breast
HAYES of the East, or Helots OF the West;
In Andes and on Athos' peaks unfurled,
sIhe se!f.same standard streams DER either world;
The Athenian wears again Harmodus' sword;
The Chill chief adiures his foreign lord;
Tie Spartan knows himself once more Greek
Young freedom pIumes the crest of each Cacique;
Ipebating despots, hemmed on either shore,
|Ghrink vainly from the reused Atlantic's roar;
through Calpe's strait the rolling tides advance,
weeps lightly by the halt.tamed land ofFrance,
basil oerthe old Spaniards cradle and would fain
EUhite Ausonia to the mighty main
fl8ut driven froin thence awhile, yet not for aye,
,Hfeak DER the JE., can mindful OF the day
ri Salams-there, there the waves arise,
+ IS, to be ulled by tyrant victories.
bne, lost, abandoned in their utmost need
Es&le desoated lands, the ravagea isle,
&1)he fostcred feud encouraged to beguile,
Ssyb,e aid evaded, and the cold delay,
safoonged but in the hope to make prey;--
Ihese, these shall tell the tale and Greece can
4# show
a<he false friend worse than the infuria'e foe.
IN this is wel Greeks only should free Greece,
\. lot the barbarian, with his mask ofpeace.
low should the Autocrat of bondage be
Inc king of scrfs, and set the nations free
litter still serve the naughty Mussulman,
"a; ban swell the Cossaques proving caravan;
Aet,er still toll for masters, than await,
41he slave of slaves, before Russian gate,--
numbered by hordes, a human capital,
TIA live estate, existing but for thrall,
&otted by thousands, as meet reward
q Tor the first courter in the Czar's regard;
N lille their immediate owner never tastes
III is sleep, sans dreaming of Sberias wastes;
IN ettcr succumb even to their own despair,
#ss4 md drive the camel than purvey the bear.
ExN VII.
But not alone within the hoariest cline,
z Where Freedom dates her birth with that of Time
And not alone where, plunged in night, a Grove
Z Tie dawn revives renowned, romantic Spain
Il Holds back the invader from her soil again.
VI Not now the Roman tribe nor Punic horde
b Demand her fields as lists TO prove the sword
E33Sf lot now the VandaI or the Vsigoth
581ollute the plains alike abhorring both;
I Nor old Peayo on his mountain rears
he warlike fathers of thousand years.
NbQhst seed is sown and reaped, as oft the Moor
n 8f$ighes to remember on his dusky Shore
5E%ong in the peasants song or poets page
Has dwelt the memory of Abenceragc,
S{ he Zegri, and the captive victors, flung
Back to the barbarous realm from whence the
#A sprung.
Il Put these are gone-their faith, their swords
&xR their sway,
kAy Yet left more Antichristian foes than they
TfSa he stern or feeble sovereign. one or both
sy turns the haughliness whose pride was slotl
8'he long degenerate noble the debased
= liidalgo, and the peasant less disgraced
( But more degraded; the unpeopled realm;
|& he once proud navy which forgot the helm
he once impervious phalanx disarrayed;
he idle forge that formed Toiedo's blade
he foreign wealth that fow'd on evry shore,
H. lave hers who earned it with the natives gore
q he very language which might vie with Rome
ILL., And once was known to nations like their home
E eglecled or forgotten;- ;-such was Spaia
Put such she is not, nor shall be again.
WGl lhese worst, these home INVADERS felt and feel
~ Hhe new Numantine soul of old CASTLE.
& Up! up again undauned aurdor!
kEHlhe bull OF Pbalaris renews his roar;
ehio'nt, chvalrous Hidalgo! not in vain
tevive the cry" Iago and close Spain pa
@ es, close her with your armed bosoms round.
And form the barrier which Napoleon found
The extcrmnatng war; the desart plain:
The streets without tenant save, the slain.
The wilder Sierra, with its wilder troop
Df fvulture- plumed Guerillas, on the stoop
or their incessant prey; the desperate wall
)f sarragossa, migh,est in her fall
Ihe man nerved to spirit, and the maid
Wavlng her more than Amazonan blade,
The knife Of Aragon,t Toledo's steel;
The famous lance of Chivalrous CASTLE;
he unerring rifle of the Catalan;
ihe Andalusian courser in the van;
"a he torch to make a Moscow of Madrid;
&dAnd IN each heart the spirit of Cid -
#f'uch have been, such shall be- such are Advan,
4 ana w'n--not Spain, but thine own freedor
France