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TRANSLATION. 



HERE LIETH, 



In either hemifphere to live forever, 



LEWIS JOSEPH DE MONTCALM GOZON, 



Marquis ot St. Verao, Baroii of Gjbriac, 



Commendatory ot the Order o( St. Lewis, , 



Lieutenant General ot the French Army, '' 

 Not lefs an excellent citiaen than foldier; 

 ■ Who knew no defire but that of true glory ; 

 Happy in a natural genius improved by literature ; • 

 Hailing gone throujjh the fevcral lieps of military honors^ 

 With uninterrupted luftre. 

 Skilled in all the arts of War, : 

 The junftarc of times, and the crifis of dangers, 

 In Italy, in Bohemia, in Germany, 

 An indctatigable General, 

 He fo difchargcd his important trufts 

 That he feemed always equal to ttill greaterj 

 At length grown briijht with perils. 

 Sent to ftcure the Province of Canada, 

 With a handtui of men 

 lie iriore than once repulfed the enemy's forces> 

 And made himfelf mailer of their Forts 

 Replete with Troops and Ammunition, 

 jtnured to cold, hunger, watchings and labors, • 

 Unmindful of himfelf, 

 He had no fenlction but for his foldiers, 

 An enemy with the fierceft impetuofity ; 



.A victor with the tendered humanity, 



Adverfe fortune he compenfatcd with valor* 



The want of llrengtti w'iih {kill and aftivity ; 



And, with his counfel and lupport, 



vor four years protrafted the impending late of the colony. 



Having with various artifices 



Long boifted a great army, 



Headed by an expert and intrepid commander. 



And a Fleet furnifhed with all warlike iiores, 



Compelled at length to an engagrment, 



He fell, in the firll rank, in the (iiftonfet. 



Warm with tliofe hopes of Religion which he had always cherifHedj 



To the inexprelFible lofs of his own army, 



And not without the regret of the enemy's, 



XIV, September, A D MDCCLIX. of his age XLVIII. 



' His weeping countrytncn 



Dtpofited the remains of their excellent General 



In a Giave 



Which a fallen Bomb in buriUng had excavated for him, 



Recommending them to the generous faith of their enemies. 



rut's Life, Vol. 11. p. 32!.'. 



END OF THE FIRST VGLUMSTo 



