POETRY “950 
All consequences : work hehath begun 
Of fortitude, and piety, and love, 
Which all his glorious "ancestors approve: 
The Heroes bless him, him their rightful Son, 
TO TOUISSAINT LOUVERTURE, 
OUSSAINT, the most unhappy Man of Men! 
Whether the rural Milk-maid by her Cow 
Sing in thy hearing, or thou liest now 
Alone in some deep dungeon’s earless den, 
O miserable chieftain ! where and when 
Wilt thou find patience ? Yet die not ; do thou 
Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow : 
Though fallen Thyself, never to rise again, 
Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind 
Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies ; 
There’s not a breathing of the common wind 
That will forget thee ; thou hast great allies ; 
Thy friends are exultations, agonies, 
And love, and Man’s unconquerable mind. 
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THE AFFLICTION OF MARGARET——— OF ———. 
From the same. 
HERE art thou, my Beloved Son, 
Where art thou, worse to me than dead ? 
Oh find me prosperous or undone! 
Or if the grave be now thy bed, 
Why am Lignorant of the same 
That I may rest ; and neither blame, 
Nor sorrow may attend thy name? 
Seven years, alas, to have receiv’d 
No tidings of an only child ; 
To have despair’d and have beliey’d, 
And be for evermore beguil’d, 
Sometimes with thoughts of very bliss ! 
Icatch at them, and then I miss ; 
Was ever darkness like to this ? 
_ He was among the prime in worth, 
An object beauteous to behold ; 
Well born, well bred ; I sent him forth 
Ingenuous, innocent, and bold : 
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