t,
Now in thy desolation, like the fate
Of those who came in innocence of heart,
With thy green Eden to assimilate:
Then Art her coronal to Nature gave,
To deck thy brow; Queen of the onward wave!
And woman came, the beautiful and good,
And made her happy home 'mid thy embracing flood.[6]

LVII.
Alas! another came: his blandishment,
The fascination of his smooth address,
That read so well the very heart's intent,
And could so well its every thought express,--[7]
Won thy fair spirits to his dark design,
And gave our country, too, her Cataline.
He lives--the Roman traitor dared to die!
Yet, in their different fates, behold the homily.

LVIII.
Rome, torn by civil feuds and anarchy,
Could not endure a traitor on her heart--
For ready Faction, with her argus eye,
Was ever watchful when to play her part;
And Freedom, with a nightmare on her breast,
But show'd she liv'd by groaning when opprest;
And even Cato's energy to save,
Preserved her, but awhile, to sink upon her grave.

LIX.
Far different with our Country! mark the time
When she threw off her trans-atlantic yoke--
Throughout the wide domain of her fair clime,
But one high soldier from his promise broke:
In that free gathering who would not enroll
With all the patriot's willingness of soul?
Our fathers fought for sacred home and hearth!
And were too young in crime to think of treason's birth.

LX.
And when the war had passed, and Freedom raised
Her temple to her worshippers, to bless
Those who had lit her altar fires, that blazed
To light the far untrodden wilderness,
All felt the worship, all confessed the God,
All knew the tyrant, and all curs'd his rod--
And if one heart fell from his promise then,
Why, he might live like Cain, scorned of his fellow men.

LXI.
The Cain of Nations! be that sov'reignty,
That shall, for any purpose, seek to sever
The glorious union of the brave and free--
That, but for treason, will endure forever!
Her curse shall be the base redeemless lot
Of the once free, who feel that they are not--
Who tread their native soil as native slaves,
And build their bondage house on their free fathers' gra