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And yet there are of baser mou'd a few, 
But not amid the gallant bands of Moore! 
Who on the hero’s grave would nightshade 
strew, 
The gall of Slander on his glories pour ! 
There are who strive to blot the hero’s name, 
That’ name to every true-born Briton 
dear : 
There are who, envious of the hero’s fame, 
His masterly retreat ascribe to fear ! 
Accursed calumny ! say, felt he fear 
Who never shrunk from danger’s frowning 
form? 
. To Moore his honour more than life was dear; 
Where’er he fought he met the onset- 
storm ! 
Led he not on his Britons*to the shock? 
Flam’d not his falchion in the horrid van ? 
Corunna conscious saw him danger mock, 
Saw every act proclaim the god-like man ! 
Oh, he was fram?d of British-heart of oak! 
And had unhallow’d Fate delay’d the blow, 
His arm had struck the foe-defeating stroke : 
Yea! laid the pride of the usurper low! 
Moore was among the first in honor’s race, 
Humane of hearts munificent of mind: 
May fair humanity for ever grace 
The British name with manliest courage 
join’d. : 
And, oh! may war’s wild fiend depart in 
peace, 
Nor longer deluge earth with seas of blood; 
May the fell tyrant soon from troubling 
cease, 
And France emerge from desolation’s flood. 
Alas! for Moore, the generous, wise, and 
brave, 
Who fought and fell in freedom’s glorious 
cause ; 
Alas! for Moore, who found a foreign grave, 
And, ah! too soon, gain’d posthumous ap- 
plause ! 
Famaica. Y A.R. 
— 
ODE TO WOMAN. 
Occasioned by reading a wretched Epigram de- 
signed to satirize the Sex. 
*©Q! fairest of creation! last and best.’’ 
f MiI.tTon. 
&¢ Auld Nature swears the lovely dears 
Her noblest work she classes, O } 
Her prentice han’ she tried on man: 
And then she made the lassesO!”” Burns, 
H, woman! on thy faithful breast 
The weary wand’rer seeks repose 3 
And, in thy fond affections blest, 
Soon finds a cure for all his woes. 
The wekeful son of worldly care 
Sleeps softly in thy tender arms 5 
To Mammon he prefers his prayer, 
But owns thy far superior charms. 
Oh, woman ! if life’s prospects lower, 
Thou bid’st the clouds fly far away 5 
And, e’en in sorrow’s darkest bour, 
Thy bright eye lends a cheering ray 5 
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Tis thine to balm the wounded soul 
That with the world long time has war’d; 
The storm of passion to control, 
And melt the spirit frozen hard. 
But, woman! wert thou heav’nly fair, 
Tf all thy charms external shine, 
If thou no mental beauty share, 
Ah! what avail these charms of thine? 
Unstable still is beauty’s power 
Whose base is built on outward form ; 
And short the rapture-gleaming hour 
That oft precedes domestic storm. 
Oh ! ifthe glowing gem of mind 
Illume the lovely female face ; 
Ff bright intelligence be shrin’d 
With feeling inthe form of grace 5 
Tis then that beauty’s beams impart 
Her charms to intellectual eyes 5 
Then, if affection fix her heart, 
Can man appreciate the prize? 
Famaica. A. R. 
EE 
CURSORY COMMENTS 
ON THE DISAPPOINTED EXPEDITIONS 
AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. 
NAPOLEON, now thy sun is set in night, 
Ch—th-—m shail plan, and C—st—r—h 
shall fight ! 
Arack-a-pay! that gentle Ca-ste-r—h 
And clever C—n—ng should so disagree, 
As at each other’s precious pates to POPS 
Ere the reluctant l—d would shut up shop! 
Was it, that stuck so fast in Flushing mud, 
They still would slake their burning thirst 
for blood? 
And, since they could no longer Frenchmenkill, 
Prove to the world, at least, their warlike will: 
Yea, bravely swallow disappointment’s pill! 
WHEN next an expedition leaves our land, 
By Ch--th.—m, greatin council, be it plann’d; 
And give bold C—st-—-r—-h the chief com- 
mand! 
Gop grant this expedition a-la- mode, 
May shed no better blood than yet His flowed; 
Nor make at home more mischief than Bieoad 
Jamaica, Peter PEPPER-POT. 
—=<"I 
EXTEMPORARY, 
ON READING THE NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS 
OF THE LATE FAMOUS VICTORY GAIN-= 
ED BY CAPTAIN B-—=RCL—yY OVER 
‘©THE ENEMY” AT NEWMARKET.*. 
O1! Captain B—cl—y combats Time, 
And conquers in a glorious cause ; 
$hall not such deeds, in manhood’s ee 
Secure posterity’s applause? 
* Having long heid in **1*zh consis 
deration” the high reaching ambition of the 
subject of the subjoined attempt at epigram, 
stronger than all his tribe of competitors and. 
imitators; and being particularly struck by 
his late gallant march to Newmarket, (happy 
field of ten-fold future fame!) where his 
more than mortal efforts were crowned “se 
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