Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-11-13

Aud whatsoever of Justice earth denies,
Angelic hands in heaven shall mead the haw.
Kse then, ON Hopes scraphic piniOns risc.-
From worlds hey ond the grave, thy comfort draw:
Aud deem the wrongs that virtue here su.tains,
Proofs that OH high God of justice rcigns'
For n selection Of a horo, not honest tho wr-
ter thus aPologiScs:
Among tho criiics it has been of yoro,
n question whether, when ho forms his plan,
An ep,c poet must, TO say no more,
j axe Tor his hero right honest man,
Hut L for my part hold the rule toro;
'Twcic well To mako him honest you can:
Into another question II must ioii;
Where such Il hero can be found a,-all.
"Heroes are much the same. (.o Pope avcrs.)
From Maccdonias madinan TO the Swcdc."
Bst this again, another question strs;
1t after ages have improved the breed.
And to my memory only one occurs
| Adapted to disturb the poets creed.
Will any mortal ask--wio is thvt ono.
Na,no him. Ay hold taper TO the Sun.
! lis said, the exception only proves the rule
| All other heroes from tho days of Pope,
Com pounds have been 4: mad,ian, knavc and fool,
Aud thus may be defind, without a trope
All scrvic followers OF tho scifsanc school;
Who hang themselves, Whenever they have rope
| Till time shall end, their merits you may scan;
Among them you find one honest man.
So far thon from Improvement in tho breed,
The scale has fallen since tho poets days
Deserves at least, of honesty the praise,
Taught Quntus Curtius when a boy to road,
IL fird his brain, and maddenod all his days.
Till his tate led him to the '.barrcn strand,
The petty fortress, and tho dubious hand"
You then who purpose invoke the Muse,
Aud in the cause of virtue point tho pen;
Need take no thought, your subjects when you
To look FOR heroes among honest mon;
Stout heai's, fierce PASSIONS, lusts TO shame tho
stews
And mercy, fitted for the tigers den;
These your heroes of the last disclosures;
Who blood and slaughter see with duo cemposure
Bat cen from these the moral maxim draw
| Strip of their laurols and expose their lives:
Bound by no tie of liberty law,
False to thor COMMUNICATIONS TO their wives.
Strip TO the skin, and hold them not in awe
! Bare to the bonc-with lnnccts and with knives:
And teach the world, from Nimrod down to Nero.
What sort of skeleton can make hero'
The circumstance that Waxford was
! OF Albions conquest the first destin'd prey ;,
is fifty brought into view in connection with tho
fact of this towns glorious prominence in the Iato
struggles for Irish independence:
First fruit of Erin's scrvitudc accurst:
And now TO hail her freedom, too the first.
Fling away dmbtion,' is good advice in Wosey,
referring TO tho ambition himself possessed. Yet
that there is ambition which deserves 10 be
cherished, tbs CONNIE ncement of the fourth canto
suggests.
/ AMBITION (sath sage who far had kenn'd
| Into the willy winnings of the hearth
Ambition, when she seeks certain ond,
| Deceives herself with hypocriiic art:
That end obtaii'd her purposes To bend
Becomes means. another end to start
| Such OF the p'uncloss bipcd is the fashion:
Ambition is a rover ending passion.
! Ambition, therefore, virtue is or vice;
Tng'd by the object. of the mans pursuit;
| A Jswel, richer than the ruby's price;
! Bohun Upas, bearing deadly fruit.
| Ethereal fire, impenetrablc ice:
The good supreme; of every i'll the root:
guardian angel, leading the skies
a demon, with the worm that never dies.
Teach not your childre N then to shun ambition;
Nor qucnch the flame, that must forever burn:
Bat, in the days OF infancy, their vision
To deeds of virtue and of glory turn:
Ofman, their mortal brother the condition
Tc mend. improve, and elevate, to learn.
Then, all the means thoy shall employ
| Will point to endless bliss and boundless low,
The Poem ofupwards OF 1000 lines, thus closest
Aud here hang my harp upon the willow;
And viii no longer impoTtene the mdse;
Nor WOO her mighty visits 10 my pillow;
Nor more implore her favor or abuse.
Brave SONS of Erin, DER the Atlantic biIlow.
The harp is yours! will you TO hear refused
Take, take il backy yourselves the strain prolonc;
And give your Dcrmots name to deatless song.
For OH if ever on the roll Of Time
Since man has OH this blessed planet dw cit,
a soul existed ealur,te with crime,
Or tho deep curse Of after yes felt;
| Yours was his country, Erin was his CLINE;
! Nor yet, has justice with his been dealt,
| My voice alas! is week, aud canno: sing
Touch, touch yourselves the never dying string.
| The attempt is at history in verso. II of
course blends fiction and fact The fiction is
confined to persons and things naturally incidental
and in these invention is INDUCED to advantage
The is lined with the dignity of Chiids
Harold and the freedom but not the licen
Of pencil, that Rvigorates Don Juan. II combine