LIBERTY HALL.

OLD HOMER ! but what have we with him to do ?
What are Grecians and Trojans to me or to you ?
Such heathenish heroes no more I'll invoke---
Choice spirits affix me---attend hearts of oak.
Derry down, &c.

Sweet Peace ! belov'd handmaid of Science and art,
Unanimity take your petitioner's part;
Accept of my song, 'tis the best I can do ;
But first, may it please you, my service to you.

Perhaps my addres's you may premature think,
Because I have mention'd no toast as I drink :
There are many fine toasts, but the best of them all
Is the toast of the times, that is, Liberty Hall.

That fine British building by Alfred was fram'd;
Its grand corner-stone Magna Charta was nam'd :
Independency came at Integrity's call,
And form'd the front pillars of Liberty Hall.

That manor our forefathers bought with their blood;
Their sons, and their sons' sons, have prov'd their deeds good
By that title we live---by that title we'll fall---
For life is not life out of Liberty Hall.

In her mantle of honour each star spangled fold,
Playing bright in the sunshine the burnish of gold,
Truth beams on her breast fee, at Loyalty's call,
The genius of England in Liberty Hall.

Ye sweet smelling courtiers of ribband and lace,
The Spaniels of power, and Bounty's disgrace!
So pliant, so servile, so passive ye fall---
But passive obedience lost Liberty Hall-

But when Resolution had settled the crown,
And Natural Reason knock'd Tyranny down,
No frown-cloathed TERROR appear'd to appall;
The doors were thrown open of Liberty Hall.

See England triumphant ! her ships sweep the sea !
Her standard is Justice---her watch-word, *Be free!*
Our King is our countryman, Englishmen all :
God bless him, and blefs us in Liberty Hall.

On vere is des Hall, Monsieur vants to know---
'Tis neither at Marli, Verfailles, Fontainbleau;
'Tis a place of no mortal architect's art,
For Liberty Hall is an Englishman's Heart.