25.

ANTICIPATION.

October, 1803.

Shout, for a mighty Victory is won!

On British ground the Invaders are laid low;

The breath of Heaven has drifted them like snow,

And left them lying in the silent sun,

Never to rise again!-the work is done.

Come forth, ye Old Men, now in peaceful show

And greet your Sons! drums beat, and trumpets blow! Make merry, Wives! ye

little Children stun

Your Grandame's ears with pleasure of your noise!

Clap, Infants, clap your hands! Divine must be
That triumph, when the very worst, the pain,
And even the prospect of our Brethren slain,
Hath something in it which the heart enjoys :-
In glory will they sleep and endless sanctity.

26.

November, 1806.

Another year!-another deadly blow!
Another mighty Empire overthrown!

And we are left, or shall be left, alone;
The last that dares to struggle with the Foe.
"Tis well! from this day forward we shall know
That in ourselves our safety must be sought;
That by our own right hands it must be wrought,
That we must stand unpropp'd, or be laid low.
O Dastard whom such foretaste doth not chear!
We shall exult, if They who rule the land
Be Men who hold its many blessings dear,
Wise, upright, valiant; not a venal Band,
Who are to judge of danger which they fear,
And honour which they do not understand.

CONCLUSION.

To

If these brief Records, by the Muses' art
Produced as lonely Nature or the strife

That animates the scenes of public life
Inspired, may in thy leisure claim a part;
And if these Transcripts of the private heart
Have gained a sanction from thy falling tears;
Then I repent not. But my soul hath fears
Breathed from eternity; for, as a dart

Cleaves the blank air, Life flies: now every day
Is but a glimmering spoke in the swift wheel
Of the revolving week. Away, away,

All fitful cares, all transitory zeal!

So timely Grace the immortal wing may heal,

And honour rest upon the senseless clay.

1827.

NOTES

to the

FIRST VOLUME.

NOTES.

NOTE I.

PAGE 1.-To the Daisy. This Poem, and two others to the same Flower, which the Reader will find in the second Volume, were written in the year 1802; which is mentioned, because in some of the ideas, though not in manner in which those ideas are connected, and likewise even in some of the expressions, they bear a striking resemblance to a Poem (lately published) of Mr. Montgomery, entitled, a Field Flower. This being said, Mr. Montgomery will not think any apology due to him; I cannot however help address