Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-02-12

MT. CarrOli tneu pldCcu tuc Sio"H VI"
the bust OF Bozzaris, and the call OF VIC
tory was sounded on the trumpels.
After the crown was placed, Mr.. FRIcK,
one OF the managers, delivered The follow
'ug ode, composed by himself tor The &C.
casiOn:
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Who knows not the land so refulgent in glory,
The cradle of Liberty, Science, and Song I;
The land that thro' time is still brightest IN
story,
Tho the dark veil Of night hath hung Ger
her So long;
The land that now struggles thro' wars desc
lation,
For the rights that again shall create her ma
ton,
From the shore through her isles, from her
isles to the sea,
Evo, shall resound asain-Grescs shall be
free.
o beauteous HELENE again shall return
Thy era of heroes, of poets and sases'
Thy matrons & maidens no longer shall mourn
The souls and the deeds that have slumber'd
for ages:
For thy sons with the valor OF freemen oppose
The sword and the cross to their intidel foes,
As from shore through the isles, from the isles
Evolshall resound n-~Greece shall be tree!
8.
Come, swear ye an oath, and record it in hea'
ven,
To be worthy the names that your history
adorn;
When your temples and affairs to sacrilege
given;
And your wives and your daughters to sla-
very borne:-
o swear to revenge them or diein the cause,
While the worlds distant regions shall ring
with applause,
And from island to shore, from the shore &c
the sea,
o PAEN resounds again--Gresce must be tree
4.
See the wreath we have braided for Bozzaris'
The warrior who sleeps upon victory's
To the cross when the crescent and seimltar
bow,
He shall rise with the spirits Of them that
are blest.
For he who for country undauntedly dies,
Shall again in his own lov'd Elysium arise;
And shall hear from the shore, thro. the isles,
DER the sea,
EvoI ring to heaven, thy country is free!
).
No longer shall Greece lack name or
station, Iry's page,
Worth the brightest and best in her histo-
For her sons are no longer vile slaves, but
nation
Expelling her tyrants, redeeming her gage.
Flow Hellespont, flow in thy dark murmur'
ing wave
Full many hero shall find proud grave,
As from shore to the islands that cluster thy sea
They shall hear the chaunt ring DER them,
Greece still is free.
6.
Then thv valleys shall bloom, and thy wrongs
fade awav- with blood
For thy streams shall flow silver untainled
Then the dance and the song roundt thy affairs
shall play. and the good.
And thy heroes be crowned by the brave
Thy sires and thy daug hters no longer shall
roam,
But the land Of their fathers be liberty's home,
Thy shore tell the isles, the isles tell the sea
That the crescent hath fallen, the Cross is
now free.
Hail hail to the day, TO posteritys glory,
When men shall unite in Holy Alliance;
When the world shall not know but in fable
and story Ghance.
Of the blood that Is shed to bid slavery de-
Let tyrants and despots then frown from afar-
We are free, & will live so, in peace or in war,
Our continents shores and the isles of the sea,
The great truth proclaiming that all men are
free.
The band then played Hail Columbia ];
after which Gen. Harper presented the
Greek boy 10 the assembly, with short
account of his family. the catastrophe by
which it was destroyed or dispersed, and
the manner 10 which he was conveyed TO
this country and concluded with an APP
peal in bis favor to the sympathy OF the
people of Baltimore, which we are happy
to say was very favorably received.
The second room was converted into q
spacious tent by military and naval flags.
so arranged as 10 decorate the walls and
conceal the ceiling. Al the upper end,
opposite TO the orchestra, was a transpa-
rency representing Bozzaris in the act OF
scaling the Turkish camp, With the stan
dsrd of the cross in his hands, and lead
ing on anc encouraging bis followers, who
are seen climbing up the rocks alter him.
Below, printed on satin in large sharae-
tiers, and surrounded by laurel and cy-
press wreath, were the following lines.