Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-03-02
THURSDAY, MARC H ?, 1896.
POETRY.

Presented by friend insertion in the Phe'r Gazette
Addressed to Robert Southey, Poet Laureat' on
ing his "Carmen Triumphale," by the late Edward
Rushton.
"Well must il suit selfish, hollow heart,
"To act the honest patriots generous part
'Not tool of party, nor no slave OF state,
"No mean dependent onthe guilty great;
"Bodly he pleads for Liberty and Laws,
"Content 10 perish in his country's cause:
swhen, 10! ray divine Of favor CLEANS,
saQuite different topics then become his themes,
sod friends old notions, are at once forgot,
PorE.
WHEN mans great curse, desrotic sway,
Sweens myriads from the realms Of day;
When wide DER all the Christian world
Distinctions banners are unfurl'd;
When Europe with exhaustion reels,
YET nor remorse nor pity feels:
At this dread period SouTHEy stands,
The wild harp trembling in his hands,
And whilst fanatic Juror fires his mind,
"Glory TO God, he cries. "dehrerance jor manS'nd'
All. Southey, if thy boyish brood
Were prone TO shed each others blood,
Thou could'st not with unruffied mein
Behold the agonizing scene:
Why then suppose the Sire OF All
Is pleased to see his creatures fall!
why then, if carnage strew the ground,
And efoans, and shrieks, and yells abound;
Why then, if ruthless havoc lord it wide,
Should bigot rage exult, and God be glorihed?
I grieve when earth is drench'd with gore,
And realms with woe are covered DER;
Igrieve, and reprobaie the plan
OF thanking God for slaughtered man:
Nor can hope thatlawless sway,
Fierce as tiger DER its prey,
, Will ever uncompelled resign
That power the priest proclalms divine:
No, Southey, no. oppressors ne'er unbind;
Ills man--high-minde man, must liberate man
kind
Appalpd by superstitious cares,
Despots of yore have crown'd their heirs.
But when, oh, Southey! tell me, when
Have despots raised their slaves to men!
Worries of Power, to this they bend,
For this eternally contend;
Whilst man, let despots rise orfall,
Poor abject man, submits to all;
And should his wrongs beyond endurance swell,
'Here elares the States red arm, and there an
endless hell.
Whether of home or foreign growth,
All dcspots from my soul loath;
And as to rights-I should as soon
Expect message forom the moon
As hope TO see courtly train
Combin'd TO cherish freedoms reign--
Combin'd to humanize the heart,
And bid the nurse dreams depart:
No. Southey, no, these scourges, when COMBINE,
NAV desoate world, but never Tree mankind
If proof be wanting, France may show,
In mans great cause how Monarch's glow:
Thou kuow'st, when one immortal stroke
! Her decorating shackles broke; t
Thou know'st how Europe's savage swarms
Flew. like infuriate 6ends to arms;
And how the Wanting legions came,
To ouench never-dying flame;
And well thou know'st how France submely
rose, ,,,,
Barred her resistless arm, and crush'd tn ag-
crossing foes.
If nreof be wanting, turn thine eyes
Where poor partition'd Poland lies;
Nv MANY a barbarous band assail'd;
In Freedoms cause she fought, she fail'd;
She saw her children bite the dust,
O'erwhelm'd by rapine, murder, Just;
She saw her cities blaze, and all
That escaped the flames by ruffians fall;
Transfx'd by groves of pixies, she heard them
groan,
Then back into the flames saw writhing thou
sands thrown.
Poor PROSTATE Poland! here we End
How despots liberate mankind;
And here, unblushing Bard, we see
n The savage hordes extoll'd by thee:
But whether minstrels change with times,
And scatter flowers DER courtly crimes;
Or Truths firm sons imprisoned lie,
\ Or priests the reasoning powers decry;
SoonNiike those brutes that shun the nightly fire
From Frsedom's holy fame shall mans fierce
foes retire.
\ Cant. Meyer, who left Para, Brazil on the
t7th nit. renorts that the people in the interior
ver. in state ofiusurrection, and troops were
dan.r,ino daily against them.