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They fought-like brave men, long and well,
They piled that ground with Moslem slain;
They conquered-but Bozzaris fell,

Bleeding at every vein:

His few surviving comrades saw

His smile, when rang their proud-" hurrah,"
And the red field was won,

Then saw in death his eyelids close,
Calmly, as to a night's repose,

Like flowers at set of sun.

Come to the bridal chamber, Death!
Come to the mother, when she feels,
For the first time, her first-born's breath;
Come when the blessed seals,

Which close the pestilence are broke,
And crowded cities wail its stroke;
Come in consumption's ghastly form,
The earthquake shock, the ocean storm;-
Come when the heart beats high and warm,
With banquet-song, and dance, and wine,
And thou art terrible--the tear

The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier,
And all we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine.

But to the hero, when his sword

Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,
And in its hollow tones, are heard-
The thanks of millions yet to be.
Bozzaris! with the storied brave

Greece nurtured in her glorys' time,
Rest thee-there is nó prouder grave,
Even in her own proud clime.

We tell thy doom without a sigh;
For thou art Freedom's now and Fame's
One of the few, the immortal names,
That were not born to die.

THE AMERICAN FLAG.

WHERE Calpe frowns, where Etna flames on high, Where Mocha's minarets salute the eye;

And where the billows of the ocean roll

O'er half the globe and flow from pole to pole

Where'er he sail'd o'er Neptune's old domain,
A Briton saw, but with a patriot's pain,
America's proud Flag displayed to view,
Her thirty stars, and in a field of blue
Proclaim'd her freedom to each distant zone;
"Alas!" he sigh'd, "their ships surpass our own,
And we must tolerate, that rebels thus

On our own element should vie with us."
When lo! he saw, or thought he saw, arise,
For sleep no doubt had seal'd his angry eyes,
The Genius of the Deep, and heard him say,
Why are ye not high-spirited as they?
To see your younger brothers free and great,
Should rouse your energy, but not your hate;
Brittannia's sons shall ever rule the waves,
But 'tis those sons that are no longer slaves;
They-only they-brave Death in ev'ry form,
And ride in triumph thro' the impetuous storm;
Who bold in conscious independence stand,
Nor bend the knee to kiss a royal hand;
Subjects are slaves, tho' in a mild degree;
But only citizens are dear to me;

And them I love the most who most are free,
And give to them the Empire of the Sea.

THE INTERVIEW BETWEEN FITZ-JAMES AND THE LADY OF THE LAKE,

AND now, to issue from the glen,

No pathway meets the wanderer's ken,
Unless he climb with footing nice,

A far projecting precipice;

The broom's tough roots his ladder made,
The hazel saplings lent their aid;
And thus an airy point he won,
Where, gleaming with the setting sun,
One burnish'd sheet of living gold,
Loch-Katrine lay beneath him rolled;
In all her length far winding lay,
With promontory, creek and bay,
And islands that, empurpled bright,
Floated amid the livelier light;
And mountains, that like giants stand,
To centinel enchanted land.

High on the south, huge Benvenue
Down to the lake in masses threw.

Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurl'd,
The fragments of an earlier world;

A wildering forest feathered o'er
His ruined sides and summit hoar,
While on the north, through middle air,
Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare.

From the steep promontory gazed The stranger, raptured and amazed; And, "What a scene were here," he cried, "For princely pomp or churchman's pride!"

"Blithe were it then to wander here!
But now,-beshrew yon nimble deer,-
Like that same hermit's, thin and spare,
The copse must give my ev❜ning fare;
Some mossy bank my couch must be,
Some rustling oak my canopy:
Yet pass we that;-the war and chase
Give little choice of resting place;
A summer night, in green-wood spent,
Were but to-morrow's merriment;-
But hosts may in these wilds abound,
Such as are better missed than found;
To meet with highland plunderers here
Were worse than loss of steed or deer.
I am alone;-my bugle strain
May call some straggler of the train;
Or fall the worst that may betide,
Ere now this falchion has been tried."

But scarce again his horn he wound,
When lo! forth starting at the sound,
From underneath an aged oak,
That slanted from the islet rock,
A damsel guider of its way,
A little skiff shot to the bay,
That round the promontory steep
Led its deep line in graceful sweep,
Eddying, in almost viewless wave,
The weeping willow twig to lave,
And kiss, with whispering sound and slow,
The beach of pebbles bright as snow.
The boat had touched the silver strand,

Just as the hunter left his stand,

And stood concealed amid the brake
To view this Lady of the Lake.
The maiden paused, as if again

She thought to catch the distant strain,
With head up-raised, and look intent,
And eye and ear attentive bent,

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And locks flung back, and lips apart,
Like monument of Grecian art;
In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.

And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace
A nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace,
Of finer form, or lovelier face!

What though the sun, with ardent frown,
Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown,
The sportive toil, which, short and light,
Had dyed her glowing hue so bright,
Served too in hastier swell to show
Short glimpses of a breast of snow;
What though no rule of courtly grace

To measured mood had trained her pace,

A foot more light, a step more true,

Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew;
E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head,
Elastic from her airy tread:

What though upon her speech there hung
The accents of the mountain tongue,
Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear,
The listener held his breath to hear.

A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid;
Her satin snood, her silken plaid,
Her golden brooch such birth betrayed;
And seldom was a snood amid

Such wild luxuriant ringlets hid,

Whose glossy black to shame might bring
The plumage of the raven's wing;
And seldom o'er a breast so fair
Mantled a plaid with modest care;
And never brooch the folds combined
Above a heart more good and kind;
Her kindness and her worth to spy,
You need but gaze on Ellen's eye;
Not Katrine in her mirror blue,
Gives back the shaggy banks more true,
Than every free-born glance confessed
The guileless movements of her breast;
Whether joy danced in her dark eye,
Or wo or pity claimed a sigh,
Or filial love was glowing there,
Or meek devotion poured a prayer,
Or tale of injury called forth,
The indignant spirit of the north,
One only passion unrevealed,

With maiden pride the maid concealed,

Yet not less purely felt the flame;-
O need I tell that passion's name!

Impatient of the silent horn,

Now on the gale her voice was borne:"Father!" she cried; the rocks around Loved to prolong the gentle sound.

A while she paused, no answer came,-
"Malcolm, was thine the blast ?" the name
Less resolutely uttered fell,

The echoes could not catch the swell.
"A stranger, I," the huntsman said,
Advancing from the hazel shade.
The maid alarmed, with hasty oar,
Pushed her light shallop from the shore;
And when a space was gained between,
Closer she drew her bosom's screen;
So forth the startled Swan would swing,
So turn to prune her ruffled wing;
Then safe, though fluttered and amazed,
She paused, and on the stranger gazed:
Not his the form, nor his the eye,
That youthful maidens wont to fly.

On his bold visage, middle age
Had slightly pressed its signet gage,
Yet had not quenched the open truth,
And fiery vehemence of youth;
Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare,

The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire;
Of hasty love, or headlong ire.
His limbs were cast in manly mould,
For hardy sports, or contest bold;
And though in peaceful garb arrayed,
And weaponless, except his blade,
His stately mien as well implied
A high-born heart, a martial pride,
As if a Baron's crest he wore,
And sheathed in armor trod the shore.
Slighting the petty need he showed,
He told of his benighted road;
His ready speech flowed fair and free,
In phrase of gentlest courtesy,

Yet seemed that tone, and gesture bland,
Less used to sue than to command.

A while the maid the stranger eyed,
And, reassured, at last replied,
That highland halls were open still
To wildered wanderers of the hill.

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