mans, may convert our territory into a waste like Judea, and our capital into ruins like Jerusalem.

For "that effeminacy, folly, lust,
Enervates and enfeebles, and needs must,
And that a nation shamefully debas'd,
Will be despis'd and trampled on at last,
Unless sweet Penitence her pow'rs renew,
Is truth, if history itself be true.

There is a time, and justice marks the date,
For long forbearing clemency to wait;
That hour elaps'd, th'incurable revolt

Is punish'd, and down comes the thunderbolt."

The word once giv'n,' "and mutiny soon roars In all her gates, and shakes her distant shores ; The standards of all nations are unfurl'd,

She has one foe, and that one foe, the world.

And if He doom that people with a frown,

And mark them with the seal of wrath, press'd down Obduracy takes place; callous and tough

The reprobated race grows judgment-proof;

Earth shakes beneath them, and heaven roars above, But nothing scares them from the course they love;

To the lascivious pipe and wanton song,

That charm down fear, they frolic it along,

With mad rapidity and unconcern,

Down to the gulf from which is no return.
They trust in navies, and their navies fail,
God's curse can cast away ten thousand sail ;
They trust in armies, and their courage dies;
In wisdom, wealth, in fortune, and in lies;

But all they trust in withers, as it must,
When He commands, in whom they place no trust.
Vengeance at last pours down upon their coast,
A long despis'd but now victorious host;
Tyranny sends the chain that must abridge
The noble sweep of all their privilege,
Gives liberty the last, the mortal shock,

Slips the slave's collar on, and snaps the lock.”

COWPER

FINIS.