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deplorable fituation in numbers the mofl 

 fimple and affecting, from which the 

 following is a feleclion put into Englifh 

 drefs. 



Hark ! the cuckow's plaintive note 

 Doth thro* the wild vale fadly float; 

 As from the rav'nous hack's purfuit, 

 In Ciog refts her weary foot; 

 And there, with mournful founds and low, 

 Echoes my harp's refpoafive woe. 



Returning Spring, like opening day, 

 That makes all nature glad and gay, 

 Prepares Andate's fiery car, 

 To roufe the bretheren of the war ; 

 When, as each youthful hero's breaft 

 Gloweth for the glorious teft, 

 Rufhing down the rocky fteep, -i 



See the Cambrian legions fweep, V 



Like meteors on the boundlefs deep. J 



Old Mono fmiles 



Monarch of an hundred ifles. 



And Snoivdcn from his awful height, 



His hoar head waves propitious to the fight. 



, Bat I no more in youthful pride, 

 Can dare the fteep rock's haughty fide ; 

 For fell difeafe my fmews rends, 

 My arm unnerves, my flout heart bends; 

 And raven locks, now filver-grey, 

 me from the field away, 



But 



