468 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
And still her sons, a mingled line, 
Warm in her hallow'd cause combine.— 
Offspring of those whose feariess ranks 
Bore from oldyThames’ high trophy'd papks Cy | 
Her vaunted charter, whieh unites ~~ 
A monarch’s with a people's rights ; 
_ OF those w. por spears, tremendous. ‘gleam 2 ee Lan 
*\ By’Galedonian Banna’s stream, Te 
While stern Carnarvon’s archers fly 
Before the van ofiLiberty;. 9°) ni rakes 
Offspring of thosewwhose patriot ost 
On tair lerne’s sister coast 
Saw Tyranny’s expiring pride >» Die 
Whelm'\l deep in Boyne’sensanguin'd tide 5) 
In dread array they staud round Britain’s® throne, 
And guard, at Freedom's éall, a’Monerch’ all her own. 
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To welcome George's natal hour, vie ih, 
No vain display of empty pow’r, 
In flatt'ry steep’d no soothing lay 
Shall strains of adulation pay 3 j enhary 
But Commerce rolling deep and wide Hh ytaeg 
To Albion's shores her swelling tide, 
But Themis’ olive-cinctur’d’bead, 
And white-rob’d’ Peace: by Viet'ry*led, 
Shall fill his breast-with virtuous pride, 
Shall give dim pow’r to truth ally’d; 
Joys which alone a patriot King! can’ prove— pe 
A nation’s strength his pow’r, his. pride. <r sHlove: aw 
PARE RA.’ Rss, thementesamahea taauns? 
| gb RA*, thron'd upom the banks of Nile, 
- Spread her smooth leaf, and waved her silver style. — 
—— The story’d pyramid, the laurel’d bust, 
The trophy'’d arch had crumbled into dust ; 
The sacred syepbed and the epic song 
{Unknown the character, forgot the tongue) 
With each unconquer'd chief, or sainted maid, 
Sunk undistinguish’ d in oblivion’s shade. 
Sad o’ersthe scatier'd ruins’Genius sigh’d, 
And infant arts but learn'd to lisp and dy’d, 
Till to astonish'd realms Papyra taught 
To paint in mystic colours sound and say 
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* Cyprus. Papyrus. Three males, and one Disiity The leafiof this» plant 
was first used for paper; whence the word Paper 5 ; and leaf, on folium, fora rold 
of abook. Afterwards the bark of a species of mulberry was used 5 
whence Tiber 
significs a bouk, and the bark ofa tree. Before the invention of letters, mankind 
may 
