Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1845-07-11
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From 1al's Magazine.
STANCES TO ENGLAND.
len the curse Heaven keeps for the naughty cam
over,
Z merchants rapacious, her rulers unjust,
Il rum at last for tile earhworm TO cover,
e Lady Of Kingdoms lay low in the DUST
Moore.
Too long il hath been said aud sung,
My country, unto thee
Thy banner floats on every gnlc,
Thy keel ploughs every sea;
Der every continent and islo
Thine influence is flung,
And not spot on e,ith bu, knows;
The accents of thy tongue;
Not Rome had wider spreading sway,
Nor Greece, when Greece was young.
Too much thou has, exalted been,
Too much with pride of place,
Thou hast been led to overween
Thyself and oil thy race;
Thou hast grown proud and arrogant,
While sitting like queen,
With couchant lion by thy side,
Upon thy throne marine;
Not any one might say thee nay,
Nor come thy will between.
But what will History say Of thee
In some no; distant day,
When broken is thy rod of rule,
And ended is thy sway
When thou hast known decline and fall.
As Rome before thee knew;
When time for thee hath spread the pail,
And Death hath pierced thee through,
And rcckoned is the grea, account
Where all must have their due?
How hast thou used the boundless power
That unto thee was given?
The seeds Of good thou had'st TO SOW,
How have they grown and lhriv.n
The barren places of the earth
Hast thou like gardens made!
Do arid wildclnesses smile
With green bouch and with bladc7
And doth the gospel sunlight shine
Where all before was shade?
Thou answcrcst yea, the mental waste
Is not waste no more;
My missionaries have gone forth
To every distant shore;
My merchant ships have crossed the man
To civillze mankind;
No more The savage is a brute,
The heather no more blind;
And broken are the chains which bind
The body or the mind.
IT'S even so-thou hast done this
And unabashed might'st stand
Before the Judgment scat, but there
Are red spots on thy hand,
And Pride is throned upon thy brow
And Hatred in thy heart;
From many fair and fertile realm
Thou badest Peace depart;
And oft with words of brotherhood,
Didst act foeman's part.
How will the Hindoo testify,
And how the brave Afghan,
The dweller by the Yellow Sea,
The red Canadian?
Will not thy sister Erin have
mournful tale 10 tell?
Will not accusing voices rise
From Scottish height and dell;
And Cambria send list of wrongs
The catalogue 10 swell ?
OH thou hast run a mad career
OF conquest and of blood;
A chequercd record is thy past
Ofevll mixed with good.
Too willing eer to take offence,
Too prompt to draw the sword;
OF generous heart and open hand,
Yet smiling at a word
With evil thoughts, and passions wild
Too readily upsrred.
Surrounding nations have looked on
In jealousy and fear,
To see thy wide possessions still
Increasing year by year;
They wait until thy lions paw
Hath less nervous sweep,
Till anguor or decrepiiude
Have laid his powers asleep,
For sights and fancicd injuries
To take a vengeance deep.
They watch, and not melhinks in VAN,
Disgrace to retrieve;
The times are big with bodefu signs,
Thy faithful sons 10 grieve;
Distress and Poverty combine
Thy limbs to paralyze;
The voice of discomfort is heard
From all thy towns to rise;
Where famine goaded mulitudes
With wild shouts rend the skies.
Oh, let thine armies be recalled
That plnge and lay waste;
Be just, be true be merciful,
Nor self destruction haste;
Let equal laws be felt by all
Who dwell thy sway beneath;
Unchain thy ports, let commerce be
Free as the heavens breath;
d. II may hap, that, scorpion like,
Thou'lt sting myself to death.
Look back 10 other times, and learn
Deep wisdom from the past;
The reign of fraud and violence
When knew We this TO last
Pride goeth e'er before fall,
God grant thine not be near!
And people should be ruled by Love,
And no; by slavish FEAR;
A nation that but forgeth chains,
Perchance those chains may wear.
MODERN SAMsoNs.-IIon. j. s. Buckingl
$50, member of Parliament, says, that :
nest and strongest men he ever saw il
fe, were tribe residing up' n the Hyman
They came to Calcutta as Athl
D show their skill in wrestling. boxing, tn
ng the QUOT, and other athletic exercises
we're pttcd against British grenaders and
rs, the strongest that could be found; th'
nit was, that one of them Was a match