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The Argument	A
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Coast of France rises in vision Louis to humble the British power forms an alliance with the American states This brings France Spain and Holland into the war and rouses Hyder Ally to attack the English in India The vision returns to America where the military operations continue with various success Battle of Monmouth Storming of Stonypoint by Wayne Actions of Lincoln and surrender of Charleston Movements of Cornwallis Actions of Greene and battle of Eutaw French army arrives and joins the American They march to besiege the English army of Cornwallis in York and Gloster Naval battle of Degrasse and Graves Two of their ships grappled and blown up Progress of the siege A citadel mined and blown up Capture of Cornwallis and his army Their banners furled and muskets piled on the field of battle	B
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Thus view'd the Pair when lo in eastern skies	C
From glooms unfolding Gallia's coasts arise	C
Bright o'er the scenes of state a golden throne	D
Instarr'd with gems and hung with purple shone	D
Young Bourbon there in royal splendor sat	E
And fleets and moving armies round him wait	F
For now the contest with increased alarms	G
Fill'd every court and roused the world to arms	G
As Hesper's hand that light from darkness brings	H
And good to nations from the scourge of kings	H
In this dread hour bade broader beams unfold	I
And the new world illuminate the old	I
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In Europe's realms a school of sages trace	J
The expanding dawn that waits the Reasoning Race	J
On the bright Occident they fix their eyes	C
Thro glorious toils where struggling nations rise	C
Where each firm deed each new illustrious name	K
Calls into light a field of nobler fame	K
A field that feeds their hope confirms the plan	L
Of well poized freedom and the weal of man	L
They scheme they theorize expand their scope	M
Glance o'er Hesperia to her utmost cope	M
Where streams unknown for other oceans stray	N
Where suns unseen their waste of beams display	N
Where sires of unborn nations claim their birth	O
And ask their empires in those wilds of earth	O
While round all eastern climes with painful eye	P
In slavery sunk they see the kingdoms lie	P
Whole states exhausted to enrich a throne	D
Their fruits untasted and their rights unknown	D
Thro tears of grief that speak the well taught mind	Q
They hail the ra that relieves mankind	Q
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Of these the first the Gallic sages stand	R
And urge their king to lift an aiding hand	R
The cause of humankind their souls inspired	S
Columbia's wrongs their indignation fired	S
To share her fateful deeds their counsel moved	T
To base in practice what in theme they proved	T
That no proud privilege from birth can spring	U
No right divine nor compact form a king	U
That in the people dwells the sovereign sway	N
Who rule by proxy by themselves obey	N
That virtues talents are the test of awe	V
And Equal Rights the only source of law	W
Surrounding heroes wait the monarch's word	S
In foreign fields to draw the patriot sword	X
Prepared with joy to join those infant powers	Y
Who build republics on the western shores	Z
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By honest guile the royal ear they bend	A2
And lure him on blest Freedom to defend	A2
That once recognised once establisht there	B2
The world might learn her profer'd boon to share	B2
But artful arguments their plan disguise	C
Garb'd in the gloss that suits a monarch's eyes	C
By arms to humble Britain's haughty power	C2
From her to sever that extended shore	D2
Contents his utmost wish For this he lends	E2
His powerful aid and calls the opprest his friends	E2
The league proposed he lifts his arm to save	F2
And speaks the borrow'd language of the brave	F2
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Ye states of France and ye of rising name	K
Who work those distant miracles of fame	K
Hear and attend let heaven the witness bear	B2
We wed the cause we join the righteous war	D2
Let leagues eternal bind each friendly land	R
Given by our voice and stablisht by our hand	R
Let that brave people fix their infant sway	N
And spread their blessings with the bounds of day	N
Yet know ye nations hear ye Powers above	G2
Our purposed aid no views of conquest move	H2
In that young world revives no ancient claim	K
Of regions peopled by the Gallic name	K
Our envied bounds already stretch'd afar	I2
Nor ask the sword nor fear encroaching war	D2
But virtue coping with the tyrant power	C2
That drenches earth in her best children's gore	D2
With nature's foes bids former compact cease	J2
We war reluctant and our wish is peace	J2
For man's whole race the sword of France we draw	W
Such is our will and let our will be law	W
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He spoke his moving armies veil'd the plain	K2
His fleets rode bounding on the western main	K2
O'er lands and seas the loud applauses rung	L2
And war and union dwelt on every tongue	L2
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The other Bourbon caught the splendid strain	K2
To Gallia's arms he joins the powers of Spain	K2
Their sails assemble Crillon lifts the sword	X
Minorca bows and owns her ancient lord	X
But while dread Elliott shakes the Midland wave	F2
They strive in vain the Calpian rock to brave	F2
Batavia's states with equal speed prepare	B2
Thro western isles to meet the naval war	D2
For Albion there rakes rude the tortured main	K2
And foils the force of Holland France and Spain	K2
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Where old Indostan still perfumes the skies	C
To furious strife his ardent myriads rise	C
Fierce Hyder there unconquerably bold	I
Bids a new flag its horned moons unfold	I
Spreads o'er Carnatic kings his splendid force	M2
And checks the Britons in their waiting course	M2
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Europe's pacific powers their counsels join	N2
The laws of trade to settle and define	O2
The imperial Moscovite around him draws	P2
Each Baltic state to join the righteous cause	Q2
Whose arm'd Neutrality the way prepares	R2
To check the ravages of future wars	Z
Till by degrees the wasting sword shall cease	J2
And commerce lead to universal peace	J2
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Thus all the ancient world with anxious eyes	C
Enjoy the lights that gild Atlantic skies	C
Wake to new life assume a borrow'd flame	K
Enlarge the lustre and partake the fame	K
So mounts of ice that polar heavens invade	S2
Tho piled unseen thro night's long wintry shade	S2
When morn at last illumes their glaring throne	D
Give back the day and imitate the sun	T2
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But still Columbus on his war beat shore	D2
Sees Albion's fleets her new battalions pour	D2
The states unconquer'd still their terrors wield	U2
And stain with mingled gore the embattled field	U2
On Pennsylvania's various plains they move	H2
And adverse armies equal slaughter prove	H2
Columbia mourns her Nash in combat slain	K2
Britons around him press the gory plain	K2
Skirmish and cannonade and distant fire	C2
Each power diminish and each nation tire	C2
Till Howe from fruitless toil demands repose	V2
And leaves despairing in a land of foes	V2
His wearied host who now to reach their fleet	W2
O'er Jersey hills commence their long retreat	W2
Tread back the steps their chief had led before	D2
And ask in vain the late abandon'd shore	D2
Where Hudson meets the main for on their rear	X2
Columbia moves and checks their swift career	X2
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But where green Monmouth lifts his grassy height	Y2
They halt they face they dare the coming fight	Y2
Howe's proud successor Clinton hosting there	B2
To tempt once more the desperate chance of war	D2
Towers at their head in hopes to work relief	Z2
And mend the errors of his former chief	Z2
Here shines his day and here with loud acclaim	K
Begins and ends his little task of fame	K
He vaults before them with his balanced blade	S2
Wheels the bright van and forms the long parade	S2
Where Britons Hessians crowd the glittering field	U2
And all their powers for ready combat wield	U2
As the dim sun beneath the skirts of even	A3
Crimsons the clouds that sail the western heaven	T2
So in red wavy rows where spread the train	K2
Of men and standards shone the fateful plain	K2
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They shone till Washington obscured their light	Y2
And his long ranks roll'd forward to the fight	Y2
He points the charge the mounted thunders roar	D2
And rake the champaign to the distant shore	D2
Above the folds of smoke that veil the war	D2
His guiding sword illumes the fields of air	B2
And vollied flames bright bursting o'er the plain	K2
Break the brown clouds discoveri	B2

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