urst forth, and tears in torrents flow!
These gardens of the sun, sacred to song,
By dogs of carnage, howling loud and long, [Footnote 9]
Swept--till the voyager, in the desert air, [a]
Starts back to hear his alter'd accents there! [Footnote 10]
Not thine the olive, but the sword to bring,
Not peace, but war! Yet from these shores shall spring
Peace without end; [Footnote 11] from these, with blood defil'd,
Spread the pure spirit of thy Master mild!
Here, in His train, shall arts and arms attend, [b]
Arts to adorn, and arms but to defend.
Assembling here, all nations shall be blest; [c]
The sad be comforted; the weary rest:
Untouch'd shall drop the fetters from the slave; [d]
And He shall rule the world he died to save!
Hence, and rejoice. The glorious work is done.
A spark is thrown that shall eclipse the sun!
And, tho' bad men shall long thy course pursue,
As erst the ravening brood o'er chaos flew, [Footnote 12]
He, whom I serve, shall vindicate his reign;
The spoiler spoil'd of all; [e] the slayer slain; [Footnote 13]
The tyrant's self, oppressing and opprest,
Mid gems and gold unenvied and unblest: [Footnote 14]
While to the starry sphere thy name shall rise,
(Not there unsung thy generous enterprise!)
Thine in all hearts to dwell--by Fame enshrin'd,
With those, the Few, that live but for Mankind."

[Footnote 1: It is remarkable that these phenomena still remain among
the mysteries of nature.]

[Footnote 2: Te tua fata docebo. Virg.----Saprai di tua vita il
viaggio. Dante.]

[Footnote 3: P. Martyr. Epist, 133. 152.]

[Footnote 4: When he entered the Tagus, all the seamen ran from all
parts to behold, as it were some wonder, a ship that had escaped so
terrible a storm. F. Columbus, c. 40.]

[Footnote 5: I wrote on a parchment that I had discovered what I had
promised! --and, having put it into a cask, I threw it into the sea.
Ibid. c. 37.]

[Footnote 6: See the Eumenides of AEschylus, v. 305, &c.]

[Footnote 7: Clavigero. VII. 52.]

[Footnote 8: See the Eumenides. v. 246.]

[Footnote 9: One of these, on account of his extraordinary sagacity
and fierceness, received the full allowance of a soldier. His name
was Bezerillo.]

[Footnote 10: No unusual effect of an exuberant vegetation. 'The air
was so vitiated,' says an African traveller, 'that our torches burnt
dim, and seemed ready to be extinguished; and even the human voice
lost its natural tone.']

[Footnote 11: See Washington's farewe