m ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



While states unbounded Jong remain secure; 

 A bleeciing empire is resistless lure. 



*Hark ! 'tis a voice oaMeshed's + holy walls. 

 His fierce Afshars X impetuous Nadir calls. 

 From Gebal's mountains, whose rude summits shade 

 Nohavend's§ dark and melancholy glade ; 

 From fragrant Persis, gemm'd with orient flowers; 

 From Seistan's mines of gold and palmy bowers ;" 

 From thirsty Kerman, and Balsara's strand, 

 Where Susa's lawns to western suns expand, 

 Swells the disastrous sound to Media's vales, 

 Where health on Tabriz || breathes with all her gales; 

 To wild Araxcs' yet nntam'd career, 

 And Tcflis, to the nymphs of Georgia dear. 

 Thy sous, Shirvaun, have heard on Bacu's shore. 

 And Derbend's f iron b;irrier frowns no more; 

 While the proud Russ**, on Neva's banks aghast. 

 Starts at the echoes of the distant blast. 

 Rack the dread echoes roll through climes of day ; 

 Kings shrink to dust, and armies fade away : 

 High Candahar, on eastern ramparts bold, 

 Imperial Gazni, seat of monarchs old, 

 Cower at the peal ; astonish'd Cabul yields, 

 Lahore recoils through all her floating ++ lields. 

 Ah! be the shadows deep on Karnal's i+ meads, 

 There, there, the towering pride of Delhi bleeds. 



But e'en when, far from India's ravag'd wastes. 

 To other deaths impatient Nadir hastes, 

 Still social war, in gloomy wrath array'd. 

 Succeeds the fury oif the Persian blatLp : 

 As when the lightning rush'd along the wind, 

 Touch'd by its stroke, the mountain llames behind. 

 From realm to realm the howl of havock swells. 

 As lawless r.ige or rebel pride impels : 



* The following lines give a general sketch of the route of Nadir's conquests. 



t Meshed means the " tomb nf marlyis." 



+ Jfshars, the tribe to which Nadir belonged. 



§ I^'ohavciid, the scene of tht- last decisive battle, which lasted for three days, 

 between the Persians and Arabs, anil terminated liie emjiire of the former, in the 

 seventh century. 



li Tabriz or Tatiri!:. rcmarkahle for the purity of its air. 



^ The ancient Caspia Poricj, called by the Turks, Tiie Gale of Iron. 



* The Russians sent an embassy to Nadir. 



tf XaAorc is watered by the five branches of the Indus, and is thence called 

 Tanjab. 



ti Karnal, thirty leagues £ron Delhi. Here was fought the decisive battle be- 

 tween Nadir and Maliomracd the Mogul emperor. 



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