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Germania feels the gathering tempeft’s force, 
Hefperia’s fmiling vales attra& its courfe ; 
E’en Boreal realms its baneful influence feel ; 
Britain alone unfheaths th’ avenging fteel. 
But fee what awful fhining forms appear! 
Circling the fummit of yon fnow-capp’d hill. 
From that drear height 
They meet the fight, 
And now more brilliant bright, more ftrong, 
more clear, 
Hither they bend their fteps; now nearer 
ftill; 
Their Druid robes float on the wind, 
And leave !ong trails of light behind. 
And in the midft, of more than mortal fize, 
Lo! Cambria’s Genius rolls his fiery eyes! 
Like flames they glare, 
Through dufky air; 
Ah! fee him in his nervous right-hand rear 
A pine tree tipp’d with lightning for a {pear! 
The gloomy frowning night he chafes far 
away, 
While from his ftreaming hair fwift beams 
of glory play, 
Memoirs of M, Daubenton. 
[ June 1, 
Hill to hill he ftrides amain, 
Followed by the Druid train. 
Now, now, his thund'ring voice he pours in* 
accents ftrong, 
Wide fpread the deep’ning founds re-echoing 
long, ; 
6¢ Rife, my fons, for fight prepare ! 
‘¢ Rife! the battle’s fury dare. 
“* Inftant arm your potent hands, 
*¢ Join the Saxons’ friendly bands. 
“ Firmly now, with patriot rage, 
¢ Fierce, united, conflict wage! 
‘¢ Lift high the beaming {word, poife, point 
the lance 5 
‘© Oh tell to Europe, tell to haughty France, 
«* When for liberty and laws, 
«¢ When in Freedom’s facred caufe 
¢* Saxons, Britons, dreadful rife, 
‘6 Evry fell invader dies!” 
So fpake the wrathful Genius; while around 
Their harps the Druids {weep to martial 
found: 
The glorious vifion fades away, 
As fades the parting beam of days 
MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
Some ACCOUNT of the LIFE, and WRIT- 
INGS of CITIZEN DAUBENTON, by 
G. CU-VIER. 
OUIS-Joun-Marie DauBENTON, 
the fon of John Daubenton, a No- 
tary, and Marie Pichenot, was born at 
Montbar, in the department of the Cote- 
d’Or, on the 29th of May, 1716. 
Diftinguifhed in his infancy by great 
gentlenets of manners, and an ardent love 
of ftudy, he obtained from the Jefuits, of 
Dijon, ander whofe aufpices he com- 
menced his education, all thofe little 
Giftinctions which are fo gratifying to 
youth, without being uniformly the har- 
bingers of more lafting fuccefs. He 
never ceafed, throughout life to recol- 
le& with pleafure thefe early marks of ho- 
nour, and always carefully preferved the 
written t:ftimonies of having received 
them. 
After going through, what was then 
termed a courle of philofophy, under the 
Dominicans of the fame village, his fa- 
ther, who intended him for the church, 
ot which he had made him aflume the ha- 
bit zt twelve years of age, fent him to 
Paris, to complete his theological fudies ; 
but in{pired by a prefentiment of what he 
was one day to become, he devoted him- 
{cif in private to the ftudy of medicine. 
With this view, he attended the le&tures 
of Baron, Martineny, and Col de Villars, 
and in the Botanical Garden, which he 
afterwards rendered fo celebrated, thote 
of Winflow, Hunauid, and Anthony 
Jufficu. The death of his father, which 
happened in 1736, leaving him at liberty 
to purfue the bent of his own inclinations, 
he took his degrees at Rheimis in 17405 
and 1741, after which he retérned to his 
Native province, where doubtlefs his 
ambition would have been for ever con- 
fined to the practice of medicme, had not 
a happy accident brought him upon a more 
brilliant theatre. 
The little village in which he was born, 
could alfo beaft of having given birth to 
a mao, whom an independent fortune, vi- 
gorous health, an agreeable perfon, and 
high fpirit, but fill more efpecially an ar- 
dent love of pleafure, feemed to deftine to 
a far different career than that of the 
{ciences, to which, however, he was im- 
pelled by the irrefistible force of his — 
enius. ’ 
: Buffon, Jong irrefolute refpeéting th 
object. to which he fhould direct the 
owers of his mind, attempted, by turns, 
the ftudy of geometry, phyfics and agri- 
culture. At laft, his triend Dufay, hav- 
ing refcued, during his thort adminiftra- 
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