Or fortitude be wanting to sustain, strain 5 triumph, how the labouring Danube bore XX. [Composed 1809.-Published 1815.] CALL not the royal Swede unfortunate, Who never did to Fortune bend the knee; A weight of hostile corses: drenched Who slighted fear; rejected steadfastly with gore Were the wide fields, the hamlets heaped with slain. fet see (the mighty tumult overpast) ΙΟ Temptation; and whose kingly name and state Have "perished by his choice, and not his fate!" 5 Hence lives He, to his inner self endeared; stria a Daughter of her Throne hath sold! and her Tyrolean Champion we be- And hence, wherever virtue is revered, 1 hold He sits a more exalted Potentate, Jurdered, like one ashore by shipwreck Throned in the hearts of men. Should cast, frdered without relief. Oh! blind as bold, Heaven ordain That this great Servant of a righteous cause 10 think that such assurance can stand Must still have sad or vexing thoughts to fast! Internal darkness and unquiet breath; And, if old judgments keep their sacred course, Methinks that we shall hail thee, Cham pion brave, Redeemed to baffle that imperial Slave, Him from that height shall Heaven pre- And through all Europe cheer desponding [Composed 1810.-Published 1815.] AH! where is Palafox1? Nor tongue nor pen The Mother then mourns, as she nee must mourn; Reports of him, his dwelling or his grave! But soon, through Christian faith, is gr Does yet the unheard-of vessel ride the wave? Or is she swallowed up, remote from ken Of pitying human nature? Once again 5 1 Don Joseph Palafox-y-Melzi (1780–1847), famed for his stubborn defence of Saragossa, on the surrender of that fortress by the general to whom, owing to illness, he had been compelled to resign the command, was taken prisoner (February, 1809) and sent to Vincennes, where he was detained for nearly five years. On the restoration of Ferdinand VII. he was sent back to Madrid, and in 1814 was appointed Captain-General of Arragon; but soon after retired into private life, from which he never again emerged.-ED. subdued: And joy returns, to brighten fortitude. XXV. FEELINGS OF A NOBLE BISCAYAN AT ONK THOSE FUNERALS. 1810. [Composed 1810.-Published 1815.] YET, yet, Biscayans! we must meet of Foes With firmer soul, yet labour to regain Our ancient freedom: else 'twere wor than vain Becomes not one whose father is a slave: Oh, bear the infant covered to his grave! These venerable mountains now enclose A people sunk in apathy and fear. XXVII. INDIGNATION OF A HIGH-MINDED SPANIARD. 1810. [Composed 1810.-Published 1815.] WE can endure that He should waste our lands, If this endure, farewell, for us, all good! Despoil our temples, and by sword and The awful light of heavenly innocence Descend on all that issues from our blood. XXVI. THE OAK OF GUERNICA. he ancient oak of Guernica, says Laborde in bis account of Biscay, is a most venerable atural monument. Ferdinand and Isabella, in the year 1476, after hearing Mass in the church of Santa Maria de la Antigua, repaired to this tree, under which they swore to the Biscayans to maintain their fueros (privileges). What other interest belongs to it in the minds of this people will appear from the following UPPOSED ADDRESS TO THE SAME. 1810. MAK of Guernica! Tree of holier power han that which in Dodona did enshrine lo faith too fondly deemed) a voice divine feard from the depths of its aerial bowerlow canst thou flourish at this blighting hour? 5 What hope, what joy can sunshine bring to thee, r the soft breezes from the Atlantic sea, he dews of morn, or April's tender shower? flame troke merciful and welcome would that Honour that knows the path and will not be swerve; a flight Then for that Country let our hopes be Charged, and dispersed like foam: but bold; For matched with these shall policy prove Of scattered quails by signs do reunite, So these, and, heard of once again, chased vain, Her arts, her strength, her iron, and her gold. XXIX. [Composed 1810.-Published 1815.] O'ERWEENING Statesmen have full long relied On fleets and armies, and external wealth: But from within proceeds a Nation's health; Which shall not fail, though poor men cleave with pride 5 To the paternal floor; or turn aside, As being all unworthy to detain Spaniards of every rank, by whom the good With combinations of long-practised art For they have learnt to open and to cle Of such high course was felt and under- The ridges of grim war; and at their be Are captains such as erst their counti bred stood; Who to their Country's cause have bound a life Erewhile, by solemn consecration, given To labour, and to prayer, to nature, and to heaven1. XXX. THE FRENCH AND THE SPANISH GUERILLAS. by night Through heavy swamp, or over snow-clad And bloodshed, longed in quiet to be 1 In some green island of the western mai height THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA. [Composed Feb., 1816.-Published: vol. of 1816.] In hooded mantle, limping o'er the plain, Or, if a juster fancy should allow II ever may from our souls one truth de- And sacred home-ah! why should hoary part hat an accursed thing it is to gaze #prosperous tyrants with a dazzled eye; -touched with due abhorrence of their guilt ΙΟ Age be bold? 25 Fleet the Tartar's reinless steed, r whose dire ends tears flow, and blood And sent him forth, with squadrons of his is spilt, ad justice labours in extremity rget thy weakness, upon which is built, wretched man, the throne of tyranny kind, And bade the Snow their ample backs |