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GREECE TO THE HOLY ALLIANCE ; 



[BY THE AUTHOR OF " LACON."] 

 WRITTEN PREVIOUSLY TO THE SIEGE OF MISSOLONGHI. 



SHALL Europe sue to such as you 



For freedom or reform ? 

 For such a gale you have not sail, 



Nor ballast for the storm. 



Imprison light in womb of might 



Fetter the wave, the wind ; 

 Then try your hand, with rope of sand, 



To manacle the mind. 



Shall we, that broke the Persian's yoke, 



Let the fell Turk prevail ? 

 First, drunk with blood be field and flood, 



With carnage sick the gale. 



Each bristled hill, Tyrtaen skill 



Shall rouse to deeds of fire ; 

 Each path hath her Leonidas 



To vanquish and expire. 



With bill and brand we'll waste the land, 



Ere it the foe shall feed ; 

 Though Tempe's flowers should bless the bowers, 



And angels intercede. 



The Queen of Isles abhors your wiles, 



She boasts a patriot king : 

 George lists from far your wordy war, 



And plumes his eagle wing. 



Each head and hand throughout that land 



Are his by flood or field ; 

 Their heart his throne, their love the zone 



That girds him as a shield. 



STANZAS ADDRESSED TO MRS. G H. 



MORE than the science Milton claimed 



Thy favour'd suitor won, 

 When Hymen gave those varied charms 



A harem blent in one. 



But we that on that brilliance gaze 



Mayn't love, but must adore, 

 And wish that niggard Nature's hand 



None such had made, or more. 



The tempering radiance of those eyes 



But ill disarms their fire ; 

 And we, like moths by light allured, 



Must in the blazeexpire. 



[We have been favoured with the above communication by a friend 

 who had been intimate with Mr. Colton, from earlier years. He has 

 in his possession the documents prepared by the unfortunate gentle- 

 man himself for the publication of his own life.] 



