Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-06-25

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who repose beneath it.
ODE-Br DR. PERcIvAL.
When our patriot fathers met
In the dark and trying hour,
While the hand of Britain yet
Pressed us with its weight of power,
Still they dared to tell the foe
They were never made for slaves
Still they babe the nations know,
They were free as oceans waves.
Yonder is the glorious hill,
Where their blood was nobly she'd
Never with firmer will
Hearts of freemcn beat and bled:
Shall the son forget his SIRE
No-the admiring world snail see
High pillared tomb aspire,
Like a tower of Liberty.
Now the arch of empire swells,
Proud and daring, fixed and strong,
While the hand Of ruin fells
Nations, that have f1ourished long;
Loftier the temple springs
Telling on its front sublime,
How it scorns the rage of kings,
And the wasting tooth OF Time.
From its high and lifted brow,
See! it sends a weakening light,
Where world is slumbering now
In the shades of eastern night:
They shall feel the quickening fire
Rise, and run to meet the day,
And their hearts shall never tire,
Till their chains are rent away.
None shall ever rashly dare
Lift his hand against this shrine,
While its pediment shall bear
Names, so honored and divine.
High above the sacred band,
There in light unfading set,
Like the twin stars of glory, stand
WASHINGTON and LA FAYETTE
The Suruiuors of Bunker Hill Battle
The gloom of that day may dwell or
their recollection; but in the brightness!
of this, they feel that they fought under
the auspices Of heaven. adams ant
Liberty.
Leringtin and Concord-There the
earnest was given, that people, resOlred
TO be free, can never be enslaved. Oh
Soldier.
The President Of the United States
= Washington's March.
The Governor Of the Commonwealth.
. Governor Brooks March.
The Continental Ay,my.-Whom nc
tory could not elate--whom defeat could
not depress;-their cause, their coun-
trust, their God
The Memory of Washington
Dirge.
THE Continental COngress.-The en-
bodied wisdom Of the nation; which
the freedom of one hemis-
phere, and promulgated the principles
which will emancipate the other.
THE Memory Of Wa,ren-Associated
with this occasion, his name comes to
US Gas the gentle rain from Heaven,
refreshing the place beneath"
VOLUNTEERS.
The Orator ofthe day-A Statesman
and patriot who knows no party but
his country, who feels no impulse but
her welfare.
THE Grecian and Spanish Patriots
The voice that spoke from these
heights, has been re-echoed from the
andes, and heard along the shores Of
the Morea.
In word every thing conspired to
render this one of the most interesting
Tetes we ever attended. The collec-
ton of SO many survivors of this hard
fought and glorious day, and of so ma
ny revolutionary heroes of other and
equally hard fought fields, the recollec-
ion of the feelings of this moment, so
years ago, and the wonderful series of
almost miracles which have since that
line distinguished our country, and
,stonished the world; and the anticipa-
ion of the next so years to come,
we're sufficient to attract the attention
If every man who had ever learned to
hink, and to fill the mind with all that
vas solemn, joyful, grateful, andlpatri-
,tic.
AMERICAN GENIUS.
Extract ola letter from gentleman in Paris,
to his friend in Philadelphia, dated April %,