Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-09-02
FOR THE ENQUIRER.


AHSesing Hearen, soia. avorId 10 this sr-Sbakspear
There are not, tyrants OF tie ftful air,
of roaring ocean or OF shadowy earth,
Gentle or savage, but their species spare,
Amt own the kindred sympahies OF birth
on iron pinlons poised the condor sweeps,
champs his huge beak and marks his iht with blood
dread, from his lair the empty leopard leaps,
. Aud vast Balnne load with death the flood;
Yet their rude hearts bv Natures hand designed,
own the soft ties which bind them tn their kind
Not so proud man-Ae owns no ties which bind
Lt'S caltouS heart, in mercy, to mankind
D"'i ruthless, rtsheS on, Der field aud flood,
Il" scenes OF fraud, OF violence and blood
when wreathe,l Wv fame the great Plebeian waved
And IN his scales the thrones OF Europe weighed
When like mighty avalanche he rushed,
Aud iron crowns and feudai sceptres crushed
Wien round his eagles, glit,ering the view,
8 9a venice, Belgium and Italia drew;
When The pale Auocrat at Tilsit saw,
And seeing, owned his sin. qua non as law;
When Aoslria's daughter, from her sire affair
Just as a Sancitrich fer the" Minotaur"-
Mept n brief space-ant when her tears were dried
Drnmed a bright empress in imperial pride!
When Prussia qusiled-and but Britannia stood,
secured in safety by her walls of wood
Say them what power the whenina ca,nract's course
nrnve'i and n,peded in its sweep, and force.
What Hercules in kings and kingdon,s' cause,
bade irightiul Achelous turn and pause
AMI, by an impulse vibrating afar,
o"Vet tue trail thrones of Caesar, Khan and C.nrl
That power, Iberia rose where thou
49, AIT doomed again TO fight fall;
Tue ianrel which aderns thy brow
Mus, Must hde-and those who owe thee all
Wt grateful for their letters broke,
Replace u with an iron yoke
FhOu Gallia fought, myself and them
oiree from real or from fanci'd chains I
And nov they send her back TO whelm
Ihy sons in slavery for their pains
Pt, oil, descending, shall Aurora steep
=, tier golden glorieS in the bright ABYSS,
Ere she AGAIN beholds deed, 81 deep,
30 iouiIy vile-So infamous 5 this
Yet such The world and still its weight
Which rarel degns TO crush a Nv
Fails fatal tor the good-or great,
who'd dare to wave wing on high.
Ne, though the mountain Gar its shade
May round in mellow mildness throw
yet DER its head the beginnings spread
And thupders shake its base below
lie who at Canna plucked the wreath
OF glory from the brow Of Rome
AZ Zama saw il shrink beneath
Anothers fame, more TO bloOm-<
q irtendiess exile forced to roam,
hnd but by poison find home,
sunk Hannibal within the tomb
But what the fate of him who tore
The lnurel from that victor brow
lie had TO seek foreign shore
Where slept he-and where slePps he now
t"r only stranger hands and stones
Gave grave and trophy 10 his bones
And when--what boots il Trkere the skies
With bruised and broken heart, beneath
1he soldier, father husband lies
wan scarce shroud and not WREATH
Yet still shall other ages saw,
Z Though venOm'd Envy now decrieS
~ ms was not peerless day
He sleeps unwept-Gnhonour'dl low
Around where ocean pillows rave;
Nay Europe ne'er have cause TO know
That he alone had power TO save.
Tie Kaimuck, Cossack, Russ and Hun
Rave crossed, and oft recrossed the Don,
lhougb haply, Freedoms efforts vain,
TO seat them in some teeming Spain,
They'll cross and never again
Roll ON. We mighty pillows roll on high
And hrave your Spray-capt SUBMITS TO he ,kvt
Blow, blow We breezes be IL ever thus
And keep the modern Aaric from us SEnIEV