990 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



— The cruel, the cannibal mind, 



We soften'd, subdued, and refined ; 



Bears, wolves, and sea-monsters, they rush'd from their den ; 



We taught them, -we tamed them, we turn'd thom to men. 



*' Love led the wild hordes in his flower-woven bands, 



The tendercst, the strongest of chains ! 



Love married our hearts, he united our hands, 



And mingled the blood in our veins ; 



One race we became : — on the mountains and plains. 



Where the wounds of our country were closed. 



The ark of religion reposed, 



The unquenchable altar of liberty blazed, 



And the temple of Justice in mercy was raised. 



*' Ark, altar and temple, we left with onr breath 



To our children, a sacred bequest ! 



O guard them, O keep them, in life and in death I 



So the shades of your fathers shall rest. 



And j'our spirits with ours be in Paradise blest : 



— Let ambition, the sin of the brave, 



And avarice, the soul of a slave, 



No longer seduce your affections to roam 



From liberty, justice, religion, at home!" 



THE COMMON LOT. 



from the same. 



ONCE in the flight of ages past, 

 There lived a man : — and who was be ' 

 — Mortal ! howe'er thy lot be cast, 

 That man resembled thee. 



Unknown the region of his birth. 

 The land in which he died unknown : 

 His name hath pcrish'd from the earth, 

 This truth survives alone : — 



That joy and grief, and hope and fear, 

 Alternate triumph'd in his breast ; 

 His bliss and woe, — a smile, a tear ! 

 — Oblivion hides the rest. 



The bounding pulse, the languid limbj 

 The changing spirits' rise and fall ; 



We 



