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Ipsa jacet Lodo'ica solo convulsa, minseque 

 * Murorum ingentes, disjectaque moenia fumant. 



Umbriferis frustra se muniit ardua saxis, 

 Vallosque implicuit vallis (victoria tanto 

 Hostibus empta licet Ductore) arx fida Quebeci. 

 Jamque noYie gentes et centum uberrima regna, 

 Se Britonum titulis ultro regalibus addunt. . 

 Ex quo prffiruptis scopulis plaga pinea vastum 

 Obsidet Osvegum, sonituque per arva marine 

 Lata fremit, lacuumque Ontaria maxima sffivit; 

 Ad cultas procul usque oras, Missippia prseceps 

 In mare qua refluum sublimi volvitur ore ; 

 Prcelia magnanimi novus ille Georgius ultor 

 Instaurabit avi, propriumque tuebitur Indum 

 Yictor, et Hesperio late duminabitur orbi. 



" THak ye a torpor is coming over the practised power of the English 

 race for war, or that the vastness of their designs is lessening ? Lo ! there 

 survives a George, heir under equally happy auspices to his grandsire's 

 sceptre, to his grandsire's valour. He will maintain the full measure of 

 the ancient quarrels with supplies of energy and persistent hate; and 

 whatever for a successful war remains to be done, he will forthwith, with 

 armaments like the former, fully accomplish. It shames me now that I 

 broke the treaty; it repenteth me now that I wantonly meddled with 

 the boundaries of Acadia, and the tracts left. undefined ! Ye see what 

 triumphs the fortune of the long-lived King hath lately wrested from the 

 western world ! Louisbourg is razed to the ground ; its vast threatening 

 walls, its shattered fortifications, smoke ! In vain did the trusty fortress 

 of Quebec, raised aloft on shadowy rocks, strengthen and environ itself 

 with stockade upon stockade — paid for by the foe though that success 

 was, by the life of a commander so great ! And now new tribes, and a 

 hundred fertile domains, voluntarily swell the honours appertaining to 

 the King of the British people. From the point where, on precipitous 

 rocks, a region of pines surrounds the lonely Oswego, and with a sound 

 like that of the sea, heard over a wide space, Ontario, greatest of lakes, 

 roars and rages, even unto the cultured banks afar, where the swift 

 Mississippi, with front upreared, plunges into the tidal sea, — he, this 

 new George, this new avenger, will begin afresh his grandsire's wars, 

 will guard an Indus of his own, and will lord it far and wide within the 

 Hesperian hemisphere." 



*' Angligenum," in the second line, is, of course, a contraction for 

 " Angligeooru;!'," from Angli2;eni, a mediasval word for " men English- 



