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The Commencement of the Nineteenth Century.

NOBLE friend! say where may Freedom banished,
Where may stricken Peace a refuge find,
Now the century in storm has vanished,
And the next in carnage stalks behind?
All old bonds of nations rent asunder;

All old forms swift hastening to decline;
Nor can Ocean stay the battle's thunder,
Nor the Nile-God, nor the ancient Rhine.
Two gigantic rival states, contending

For the sole dominion of the world, O'er all laws, all birthrights else, impending, Have the trident and the lightning hurl❜d. Every land to them must mete its treasure; And, like Brennus in those ruder days, Here the Frank his ponderous falchion's measure In the wavering scale of justice lays; There his fleets the Briton, rich and mighty,

Polypus-like, stretches o'er the deep, And the kingdom of free Amphitrite, Closes as his own peculiar keep.

To the South-pole's hidden constellations

In his restless, boundless, course he flies,

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