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The Argument	A
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Hymn to Peace Eulogy on the heroes slain in the war in which the Author finds occasion to mention his Brother Address to the patriots who have survived the conflict exhorting them to preserve liberty they have established The danger of losing it by inattention illustrated in the rape of the Golden Fleece Freedom succeeding to Despotism in the moral world like Order succeeding to Chaos in the physical world Atlas the guardian Genius of Africa denounces to Hesper the crimes of his people in the slavery of the Afripans The Author addresses his countrymen on that subject and on the principles of their government	A
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Hesper recurring to his object of showing Columbus the importance of his discoveries reverses the order of time and exhibits the continent again in its savage state He then displays the progress of arts in America Fur trade Fisheries Productions Commerce Education Philosophical discoveries Painting Poetry	B
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Hail holy Peace from thy sublime abode	C
Mid circling saints that grace the throne of God	D
Before his arm around our embryon earth	E
Stretch'd the dim void and gave to nature birth	E
Ere morning stars his glowing chambers hung	F
Or songs of gladness woke an angel's tongue	F
Veil'd in the splendors of his beamful mind	G
In blest repose thy placid form reclined	G
Lived in his life his inward sapience caught	H
And traced and toned his universe of thought	I
Borne thro the expanse with his creating voice	J
Thy presence bade the unfolding worlds rejoice	J
Led forth the systems on their bright career	K
Shaped all their curves and fashion'd every sphere	K
Spaced out their suns and round each radiant goal	L
Orb over orb compell'd their train to roll	L
Bade heaven's own harmony their force combine	M
Taught all their host symphonious strains to join	N
Gave to seraphic harps their sounding lays	O
Their joys to angels and to men their praise	O
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From scenes of blood these verdant shores that stain	P
From numerous friends in recent battle slain	P
From blazing towns that scorch the purple sky	Q
From houseless hordes their smoking walls that fly	Q
From the black prison ships those groaning graves	R
From warring fleets that vex the gory waves	R
From a storm'd world long taught thy flight to mourn	S
I rise delightful Peace and greet thy glad return	T
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For now the untuneful trump shall grate no more	U
Ye silver streams no longer swell with gore	U
Bear from your war beat banks the guilty stain	P
With yon retiring navies to the main	P
While other views unfolding on my eyes	V
And happier themes bid bolder numbers rise	V
Bring bounteous Peace in thy celestial throng	W
Life to my soul and rapture to my song	W
Give me to trace with pure unclouded ray	X
The arts and virtues that attend thy sway	X
To see thy blissful charms that here descend	Y
Thro distant realms and endless years extend	Y
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Too long the groans of death and battle's bray	X
Have rung discordant thro my turgid lay	X
The drum's rude clang the war wolfs hideous howl	Z
Convulsed my nerves and agonized my soul	L
Untuned the harp for all but misery's pains	A2
And chased the Muse from corse encumber'd plains	A2
Let memory's balm its pious fragrance shed	B2
On heroes' wounds and patriot warriors dead	B2
Accept departed Shades these grateful sighs	V
Your fond attendants thro your homeward skies	V
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And thou my earliest friend my Brother dear	K
Thy fall untimely still renews my tear	C2
In youthful sports in toils in taste allied	D2
My kind companion and my faithful guide	D2
When death's dread summons from our infant eyes	V
Had call'd our last loved parent to the skies	V
Tho young in arms and still obscure thy name	E2
Thy bosom panted for the deeds of fame	E2
Beneath Montgomery's eye when by thy steel	F2
In northern wilds the frequent savage fell	G2
Fired by his voice and foremost at his call	H2
To mount the breach or scale the flamy wall	H2
Thy daring hand had many a laurel gain'd	I2
If years had ripen'd what thy fancy feign'd	I2
Lamented Youth when thy great leader bled	B2
Thro the same wound thy parting spirit fled	B2
Join'd the long train the self devoted band	J2
The gods the saviors of their native land	J2
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On fame's high pinnacle their names shall shine	M
Unending ages greet the group divine	M
Whose holy hands our banners first unfurl'd	K2
And conquer'd freedom for the grateful world	K2
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And you their peers whose steel avenged their blood	L2
Whose breasts with theirs our sacred rampart stood	M2
Illustrious relics of a thousand fields	N2
To you at last the foe reluctant yields	N2
But tho the Muse too prodigal of praise	O
Dares with the dead your living worth to raise	O
Think not my friends the patriot's task is done	O2
Or Freedom safe because the battle's won	O2
Unnumber'd foes far different arms that wield	P2
Wait the weak moment when she quits her shield	P2
To plunge in her bold breast the insidious dart	Q2
Or pour keen poison round her thoughtless heart	Q2
Perhaps they'll strive her votaries to divide	D2
From their own veins to draw the vital tide	D2
Perhaps by cooler calculation shown	R2
Create materials to construct a throne	R2
Dazzle her guardians with the glare of state	S2
Corrupt with power with borrowed pomp inflate	S2
Bid thro the land the soft infection creep	T2
Whelm all her sons in one lethargic sleep	T2
Crush her vast empire in its brilliant birth	E
And chase the goddess from the ravaged earth	E
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The Dragon thus that watch'd the Colchian fleece	U2
Foil'd the fierce warriors of wide plundering Greece	U2
Warriors of matchless might and wondrous birth	E
Jove's sceptred sons and demigods of earth	E
High on the sacred tree the glittering prize	V
Hangs o'er its guard and tires the warriors' eyes	V
First their hurl'd spears his spiral folds assail	V2
Their spears fall pointless from his flaky mail	V2
Onward with dauntless swords they plunge amain	R2
He shuns their blows recoils his twisting train	R2
Darts forth his forky tongue heaves high in air	C2
His fiery crest and sheds a hideous glare	C2
Champs churns his poisonous juice and hissing loud	W2
Spouts thick the stifling tempest o'er the crowd	W2
Then with one sweep of convoluted train	R2
Rolls back all Greece and besoms wide the plain	R2
O'erturns the sons of gods dispersing far	X2
The pirate horde and closes quick the war	U
From his red jaws tremendous triumph roars	Y2
Dark Euxine trembles to its distant shores	Y2
Proud Jason starts confounded in his might	Z2
Leads back his peers and dares no more the fight	Z2
But the sly Priestess brings her opiate spell	G2
Soft charms that hush the triple hound of hell	G2
Bids Orpheus tune his all enchanting lyre	A3
And join to calm the guardian's sleepless ire	A3
Soon from the tepid ground blue vapors rise	V
And sounds melodious move along the skies	V
A settling tremor thro his folds extends	B3
His crest contracts his rainbow heck unbends	B3
O'er all his hundred hoops the languor crawls	B3
Each curve develops every volute falls	B3
His broad back flattens as he spreads the plain	R2
And sleep consigns him to his lifeless reign	R2
Flusht at the sight the pirates seize the spoil	C3
And ravaged Colchis rues the insidious toil	C3
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Yes fellow freemen sons of high renown	R2
Chant your loud peans weave your civic crown	R2
But know the goddess you've so long adored	D3
Tho now she scabbards your avenging sword	D3
Calls you to vigil ance to manlier cares	B3
To prove in peace the men she proved in wars	B3
Superior task severer test of soul	L
Tis here bold virtue plays her noblest role	L
And merits most of praise The warrior's name	E2
Tho peal'd and chimed on all the tongues of fame	E2
Sounds less harmonious to the grateful mind	G
Than his who fashions and improves mankind	G
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And what high meed your new vocation waits	B3
Freedom parturient with a hundred states	B3
Confides them to your hand the nascent prize	B3
Claims all your care your soundest wisdom tries	B3
Ah nurture temper train your infant charge	E3
Its force develop and its life enlarge	E3
Unfold each day some adolescent grace	B3
Some rig	F3

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