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TO THE EXILED PATRIOTS , MUIR AND PALMER . BY ROBERT SOUTHEYPOET LAUREATE .
, [ In our poetical department , ( p . ( 522 , ) we g-ave some verses under the above title : we now add some remaining stanzas ^ eeessary to complete the poem : these are supplied by The Scotsman , No . 36 . ]
Thinks the proud tyrant , by the pliant law , The hireling- jury , and the judge unjust , To strike the soul ofliberty with awe , And scare the friends of freedom from their trust ?
As easy migjit the despot ' s empty pride The onward course of rushing * ocean stay ; As easy might his jealous caution hide From mortal eyes the orb of general day . For , like that general orb ' s eternal flame , Glows the . mild force of virtue ' constant light ; Though clouded by misfortune , still the same , For ever constant and for ever bright *
INot till eternal chaos shall that light Before oppressioa ' s fury fade away ; Not till the sun himself be quenched in night , Not tiH the frame of nature shall decay .
Go , then—secure ia steady virtue—go , Nor heed the peril of the stormy seas , Nor heed the felon ' s name , the felon ' s woe , Contempt and pain , and sorrow and disease . ' Though cankering cares corrode the
sinking frame , Though sickness rankle in the shallow breast , Thoiig-h death himself should quench the vital flame , Think but for what you suffer , and be blest . .
80 shall your great examples fire each soul , So iu each free-born breast for ever dwell , Till MAN shall rise above the unjust controul , Stand where ye stood , and triumph where ye fell . Ages unborn shall glory in your shame , And cure the ignoble spirit of the time ,
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Poetry . ~~ To the Exiled Patriots Muir and Palmer . —A Thought . — 739
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A THOUGHT . BY MR . WALTER PATERSON . [ From the Edinburgh Magazine ]
O could we step into the grave , And lift the coffin-lid , And look upon the greedy worms That eat away the dead ! It well might change the reddest cheek Into a lily-white ! A nd freeze the wannest blood to look
Upon so sad a sight ! Yet still it were a sadder sight , If in that lump of clay There were a sense to feel the worra » So busy with their prey . O pity then the living heart ;—The lump of living clay , On wlioni the canker-worms of care For ever , ever prey !
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SONNET . [ From the Scotsman . J Are ye the scions of that noble stock , Are ye the offspring of those men of yore , They who opposed , in fields of
streaminggore , Their bleeding breasts , a dauntless barrier rock , Against their tyrant master ' s deadliest shock—They , on the plains of Runnymede , who swore Their native country free for evermore ? Are ye their true descendants ; ye who mock A nation's sufferings ; and in grave debate , Unheedful of a nation ' s earnest cries , Have sold the birth-riffht of a free-bora
slate , And fooTd away its charter ed liberties ? Oh , ye have won a name that will not die , It is supreme in deathless infamv . * R . H .
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And teach their lisping infants to ex * claim—He who allows oppression shares the crime .
CAIUS GRACCHUS The sixth day of the first decade of the fourth month of the third year of the French Republi c One and Indivisible .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1817, page 739, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2471/page/43/
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