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France* 1 [We copy the following verses ...
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France* 1 [We Copy The Following Verses ...
France * 1 [ We copy the following verses from the Cambridge Intelligencer , a news * paper puMished by Mr . B . Flower , during the u-ar of the French Revolution * but which has been so Jong discontinued that the extract will be new to moat of our readers . It is scarcely necessary to add that the verses were written on Buonapart * s usurping kingly power Ed . ]
¦ » Canst thou t who burst 'with proud disdain , Each high wrought link in slavery ' s chain ; . jCans c thi > u viho cleanVd , with noble "fage , The Augean filth of many an age Cans ' t thou , whose mighty vengeance
huil ' d , Destruction on thy foes- —the world , * Yet bade the infuriate slaughter cease , "When van ^ uishM despots whin'd for peace , Cans ' t thou , O France , from height * like these descend , And with each nerve unbrae'd to Buonaparte bend !
- Was it for this thy warriors rose , And paralizM vast hordes of foes ; For this all prodigal of fife , They rushM amid the bellowing strife , And like the desert ' s burning breath , Where * er they iush * d they scatterd death ; Por this , with many a gaping wound , Thy daring eons have strew d the ground , And girt with smoking gore and hills of slain .
Have gloried in their cause and spurn'd the oppressor ' s chain ! . When Britain join'd the unjust arjay , _ ' ' And her proud navy plough'd the sea , * * W a * al for this beneath the wave , VThy seamen found a wat ry £ rave ; r FQJ - tbis ^ when all around was wreck , And mingled horrprs stam'd the deck , 1 / Vhe » slowly settling towards their v ^ fujtelhe broad banners wav'd elate ,
France* 1 [We Copy The Following Verses ...
" ¦ ' Nzs it for this they five l & iH & fon * cried , > cornd the submissive act , and felt the o v erwhelming tide . Was it for this the sorrowing sire , Has seen his bleeding boy expire ^ For this the matron * sa- \ and pale , ' Has told her son ' s disastrous tale , For this the widow oft has prest > With tears the nursling to her breast ;
Was it , to lift the ambitious soul Of one , above the law * s coutroul ^ That thus dire war left millions to deplore , And the broad earth and seas were tingM with human gore . No!—Fearless France shall ne ' er be found , Like the huge brute on Indians ground . That thro * the ranks impetuous sweeps , And loads the field with mangled
heaps , But yet , each scene of carnage o'er , Obeys that goad he felt before 0 ^ No !—Fearless Fra n ge s ^ all still maintain Those i ights , Which millions dfed t ^ i gain , ¦ -, ^ : s - - - ^ - - And soon , though laurel wreaths her > chains adorn , , v r t Shall show a grovelling worW that chains are still her scorn I
Oh France thine cnerge ^ tJc » quI Will never brook unjust controiil , ... Will never crouch to slavery ' s load ^ Nor bear the oppressor ' s iron goad . n No ! France , who bade her ndto * - narch fall , Will ne ' er before this Idol crfcwl - Will ne ' er receive with abject awe A martial despot ' s will as law :
kind , France to a giant ' s arm unites a tow ^ eringmind , ' He who o ' erwhfflms hh country ' s fbe ^ Yet lays hts Country ' s freedom low , Must fear , though girt witn guards and state , From each bold arm the strojee oi fate ; _ '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/42/
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