(That fires yon heaven with storms of death,) Shall light us to the foe: And we shall share, my Christian boy! XXXVI. But thee, my flower, whose breath was given By milder genii o'er the deep, The spirits of the white man's heaven Forbid not thee to weep: : Nor will the Christian host, Nor will thy father's spirit grieve, She was the rainbow to thy sight! XXXVII. To-morrow let us do or die! But when the bolt of death is hurled, The hand is gone that cropt its flowers: Its echoes, and its empty tread, Would sound like voices from the dead! XXXVIII. Or shall we cross yon mountains blue, A thousand warriors drew the shaft? The desert serpent dwells alone, Where grass o'ergrows each mouldering bone, And stones themselves to ruin grown, Like me, are death-like old. Then seek we not their camp,-for there The silence dwells of my despair! XXXIX. But hark, the trump!-to morrow thou Because I may not stain with grief The death-song of an Indian chief!" LINES WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY IN LONDON WHEN MET TO COMMEMORATE THE 21ST OF MARCH, THE DAY OF VICTORY IN EGYPT. PLEDGE to the much-loved land that gave us birth! Pledge to the memory of her parted worth! And be it deemed not wrong that name to give, And died he not as heroes wish to die? Yes, though too soon attaining glory's goal, Yet in a mighty cause his phoenix soul Rose on the flames of victory to Heaven! How oft (if beats in subjugated Spain One patriot heart) in secret shall it mourn For him!-How oft on far Corunna's plain Shall British exiles weep upon his urn! Peace to the mighty dead ; -our bosom thanks In sprightlier strains the living may inspire! Joy to the chiefs that lead old Scotia's ranks, Of Roman garb and more than Roman fire! Triumphant be the thistle still unfurled, Dear symbol wild! on Freedom's hills it grows, Where Fingal stemmed the tyrants of the world, And Roman eagles found unconquered foes. Joy to the band* this day on Egypt's coast, Joy for the day on red Vimeira's strand, First of Britannia's host her Highland band Gave but the death-shot once, and foremost closed! Is there a son of generous England here To Or fervid Erin?-he with us shall join, pray that in eternal union dear, The rose, the shamrock, and the thistle twine! Types of a race who shall th' invader scorn, The 42nd Regiment. STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF THE SPANISH PATRIOTS LATEST KILLED IN ANGOULEME. BRAVE men who at the Trocadero fell Beside your cannons conquered not, though slain, For Freedom,-and ye have not died in vain ; Cursing the Bigot's and the Bourbon's chain, And looking on your graves, though trophied not, What though your cause be baffled-freemen cast The patriot's blood 's the seed of Freedom's tree; And short your orgies of revenge shall be, Earth shudders at your victory,—for ye Are worse than common fiends from Heaven that fell, |