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Naval action of De Grasse and Graves Capture of Cornwallis	A
Thus view'd the sage When lo in eastern skies	B
From glooms unfolding Gallia's coasts arise	B
Bright o'er the scenes of state a golden throne	C
Instarr'd with gems and hung with purple shone	C
Great Louis there the pride of monarchs sate	D
And fleets and moving armies round him wait	D
O'er western shores extend his ardent eyes	B
Thro' glorious toils where struggling nations rise	B
Each virtuous deed each new illustrious name	E
Wakes in his soul the living light of fame	E
He sees the liberal universal cause	F
That wondering worlds in still attention draws	G
And marks beyond through western walks of day	H
Where midnight suns their happier beams display	H
What sires of unborn nations claim their birth	I
And ask their empires in that waste of earth	I
Then o'er the eastern world he turn'd his eye	J
Where sunk in slavery hapless kingdoms lie	J
Saw realms exhausted to enrich a throne	C
Their fruits untasted and their rights unknown	C
A tear of pity spoke his melting mind	K
He raised his sceptre to relieve mankind	K
Eyed the great father of the Bourbon name	E
Awaked his virtues and recall'd his fame	E
Fired by the grandeur of the splendid throne	C
Illustrious chiefs and councils round him shone	C
On the glad youth with kindling joy they gaze	L
The rising heir of universal praise	L
Vergennes rose stately o'er the noble throng	M
And fates of nations on his accents hung	N
Columbia's wrongs his indignation fired	O
And generous thoughts his glowing breast inspired	O
To aid her infant toils his counsel moved	P
In freedom founded and by Heaven approved	P
While other peers in sacred virtue bold	Q
With eager voice the coming scenes unfold	Q
Surrounding heroes wait the monarch's word	O
In foreign fields to draw the glittering sword	R
Prepared with joy to trace the distant main	S
Mix in the strife and join the martial train	S
Who now assert the rights of sovereign power	T
And build new empires on the western shore	U
O'er all the approving monarch cast a look	V
And listening nations trembled while he spoke	W
Ye states of France and ye of rising name	E
That work those distant miracles of fame	E
Hear and attend let Heaven the witness bear	X
We lift the sword we aid the righteous war	U
Let leagues eternal bind each friendly land	Y
Given by our voice and 'stablish'd by our hand	Y
Let yon extensive empire fix her sway	H
And spread her blessings with the bounds of day	H
Yet know ye nations hear ye Powers above	Z
Our purposed aid no views of conquest move	A2
In that vast world revives no ancient claim	E
Of regions peopled by the Gallic name	E
Our envied bounds already stretch'd afar	B2
Nor ask the sword nor fear the rage of war	U
But Virtue struggling with the vengeful Power	T
That stains yon fields and desolates that shore	U
With nature's foes bids former compact cease	C2
We war reluctant and our wish is peace	C2
To suffering nations be the succour given	D2
The cause of nations is the cause of Heaven	D2
He spoke the moving armies shade the plain	S
And bold D'Estaing rode bounding on the main	S
O'er lands and seas the loud applauses rung	N
And War and Union dwelt on every tongue	N
And now Columbus tow'rd his favourite sky	J
Saw sails and stores and chiefs and armies fly	J
Thro' clouds of smoke and stain'd with streaming blood	E2
Contending navies spread their wings abroad	F2
Europe from all her shores approves the sight	G2
And balanced empires wait the finish'd fight	G2
Now circling far above the labouring main	S
Rose into view the extended coasts of Spain	S
He saw bold barks their warlike engines wield	H2
New squadrons coursing round the banner'd field	H2
Where Gallic streamers o'er the main advance	I2
The Hispanian flags in wonted union dance	I2
Round the deep gulph that fair Floridia laves	I2
In martial pride their conquering standard waves	I2
While thro' the entrance of the midland sea	I2
Encountering sails and hostile banners play	H
And now the level strand extending wide	J2
That opes the busy Texel's loaded tide	J2
Rose brightening from the gloom beneath his eye	J
Famed Belgia's temples glitter to the sky	J
Sudden the assembled States new glory warms	I2
Their ships collect their thousands rush to arms	I2
And roused by conquering Rodney to prepare	X
In foreign seas to meet the sweeping war	U
Lift holder wings in sign of rage unfurl'd	K2
And vengeance bears them round the watery world	K2
Where waves and mountains skirt the northern sky	J
New scenes ascending met the hero's eye	J
Increasing splendors up the vault aspire	L2
Like boreal lights the midnight heavens that fire	T
And raise to view the Baltic's gleaming wave	M2
Whose opening streams surrounding cities lave	M2
Fair on her throne revolving distant fate	D
Imperial Katharine majestic sate	D
Courts throng around her kings and heroes stand	Y
Receiving swords and sceptres from her hand	Y
She waits the day and bids the nations rest	N2
Till that new empire rising in the west	N2
Shall sheathe the sword the liberal main ascend	O2
And join'd with her the scale of power suspend	O2
Bid arts arise and vengeful factions cease	I2
And commerce lead to universal peace	I2
Christiern amid his waves exalted high	J
On the great empress cast a reverent eye	J
While Sweden's prince obeys her sovereign word	O
And aged Frederic half assumes his sword	R
Where wide Germania's opening towers arise	I2
Immortal Joseph lifts his ardent eyes	I2
High in a golden car he stands sublime	P2
Late borne disguised to every distant clime	P2
The powers the policies of every throne	C
He mark'd unnoticed and by all unknown	C
Now mid his splendid court his travels o'er	T
With eyes directed tow'rd the western shore	U
The monarch learns from that illustrious train	S
To share with liberal hand the bounties of his reign	S
Where fair Hibernia's flowery circuit lies	I2
Her glad sails wave and gathering armies rise	I2
Leinster and Grattan there assert her claim	P2
And raise the realm to freedom and to fame	P2
Thus all the eastern world in glad amaze	I2
Gaze on the scene and brighten as they gaze	I2
Wake to new life assume a borrow'd name	P2
Enlarge the lustre and partake the fame	P2
So mounts of ice that polar skies invade	Q2
Unheeded stand beneath the evening shade	Q2
Yet when the morning lights their glaring throne	C
Give back the day and imitate the sun	D2
The growing contest now with loud alarms	I2
Fill'd every clime and roused the world to arms	I2
Where Indian borders skirt the orient skies	I2
To furious strife unwonted myriads rise	I2
Great Hyder there unconquerably bold	Q
Bids vengeance move and freedom's flag unfold	Q
Fires the wide realms t'assert their ancient sway	H
And scourge fierce Britons from their lawless prey	H
Round the rich isles that grace the Atlantic tide	J2
In dread array the encountering navies ride	J2
Where Albion's treasures yield a wealthier prize	I2
And o'er her walls the Gallic standards rise	I2
Still to fresh toils o'er all the western shore	U
Her thronging fleets their new battalions pour	U
The realms unconquer'd still their terrors wield	H2
And stain with mingled gore the embattled field	H2
O'er Schuylkill's wave to various fight they move	A2
And adverse nations equal slaughter prove	A2
Till where dread Monmouth lifts a bloomy height	G2
Britannia's thousands met the Observer's sight	G2
There strode imperious Clinton o'er the field	H2
And marshall'd hosts for ready combat held	R2
As the dim sun beneath the skirts of even	S2
Crimsons the clouds that sail the western heaven	D2
So in red wavy rows where spread the train	S
Of men and standards shone the unmeasured plain	S
But now the chief of heroes moved in sight	G2
And the long ranks roll forward to the fight	G2
He points the charge the mounted thunders roar	U
And plough the plain and rock the distant shore	U
Above the folds of smoke that veil'd the war	U
His guiding sword illumed the fields of air	X
The vollied flames that burst along the plain	S
Break the deep clouds and show the piles of slain	S
Till flight	G2

Joel Barlow

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