Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-05-20
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TuIRTEENTH OF APRIL, 1879.

From grateful nations 10 Asserting skies,
Whle shouts Of JOY, and hymns oil concord rise;
While worthier bards and Tyres more swce,ly strung,
Catch the glad accents from the Patriots tongue,
w Weliesiey's honour wreath the laurel'd verse,
The healing victories OF Peace rehearSe,
And IN the Hero of IN hundred plains
Hail the Avenger of his cOunity's chains;
NV unanbitious Muse leave awhile
The pomps that glitter, and the crowds that smile,
Aud from the honourd living turn TO she'd
One tear above the still remembered dead.
Lo. as speak, shadowy train appeaIs,
The wise and eloquent of other years;
They, at whose name our ieebler spirits bow,
Their ages wonder once--its worship now,
Not yet unmndful of their earthly home
In still and solemn jubilee they come
Pause to acknowledge this suspicious day.
oNvn The high call, and swell the bright arIay.
Siateiiest and FIRST Of all that gifted t,rong
Nnh slow and measured tread, Pitt moves along,
Nor yet ioEogocs the aspect of command
mat awed the spirits of doubling land
ahc lofty port, the conscious glance oil sway,
While To the patriot band lac points the way,
Accomplished views his own dcfcrr'd intent
Waves his proud ann, and mods his pleased asSept
See on his steps rival shade attend,
IN all beside foe: but here friend.
Shc StaicSlian OF a vast but certle mind
champion Of freedom, Patron Of Mankind
who clairl'd for young America the right
fot which she bent to sue, and rose 10 Fight
Who chas'd Extorlion from her Indian plain,
H Who TiVla the links OF Afric's ioItrms chain,
Who babe the ggoaning Universe be tree:
IT cak Then, green Ern,--did he feel for thee,
y step more huoyant, more sparkling eye,
arrest the gaze, and Grattan passes by;
Greet him, thou lovely isle, from whom he bousht
4 he ieivit gesture, the impasson'd thought,
he mind, scrcncly brave and simply wise,
I'ch rs Thy soil, and tender as thy skies,
y ne how ofianguasc and the tide of heart.
Rat reachd tire hcichts but Scond the aids O! AT:
Thine was his midnight care, his morning theme,
Jt's patient iabouf, aud lis Gorgeous dream;
Thine IN each changing scene OF chsqueTed iite,
She calm OF solitude the clash OF STRIFE
Time when his me iiaIiye step would rove
fhro' his romantic Wick!Ow's mountain grove.
JhnIe, when alofi his lion spiSi, rose
Mid the fall cOucl1vc of his country's foes,
Vofe trom detected Fraud the flnsv veil
And hadc torruptiouis palsed cg;ous quail
Oh that hc might GA this hiigh;-omen'G DAY,
Eask III the promise ufits dawning ray,
IND bless The Younger hands which now rUsto!c
70 Ireland all that hc once gave before.
And thou. whom s;il rrgcn'ra,e nations bless
Whose worth our love, whose loss our tears confess
leave, Canning leave awhile thy long rcpC-c
tfo'u stormy greatness, RNd exalted woe;
thou radiant, injured, vi:dcaicd shade.
cchnid iie eXpIIiifS rite Is paid;
Thy fierce asSaiau,s check their keen CARGO,
Fly l;ir'S lat flcs hcau incense on ,fv he..
Then lCt NC p!u-a fiom Triumph gaudy wreath
tNnc cypress hI1rch for thy cold corse beneath:
on has thy voice my iaRey cspiive lei,
l lov'd thee living ADORE thee dead;
And hail with thrilling pride, and added bliss.
Ehy fame asserted by an hour Ike this.
ANGIICUS.