The Age of Bronze; Or, Carmen Seculare Et Annus Haud Mirabilis |
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Ægean AGE OF BRONZE Alfieri's alike ANNUS HAUD MIRABILIS ashes Austria behold birth blood BYRON Lord C. H. REYNELL carce CARMEN SECULARE Castile chains Chateaubriand clime close Spain conquer conquerors crushed Demosthenes desart dungeon dust duteous earth ET ANNUS HAUD fain fame feel France free Greece Gaul Gird gore grave Greeks hath hear heaven hordes imperial Jews John Hunt kings Kosciusko land LANDSEER Letters from Abroad LIBERAL Madrid Minor Pieces Moloch monarch Moscow Napoleon Napoleon's nations free ne'er NNUS o'er Old Bond Street orig patriots peace ploughshare Poland Price PRINTED FOR JOHN proud Pruth RARE FIRST EDITION realm Rent roar rocky isle royal Rubicon sawst SCARCE Seculare et Annus serfs shew shore slave smile Spaniard's spirit sway sword thee thine throne Toledo's tomb treason turn tyrant Ultra uncut Verona victor wave weep wept for worlds wines wrappers yon lone Young Freedom
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Page 7 - Yes ! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle,5 And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile.
Page 28 - The first to make a malady of peace. For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn ? But corn, like every mortal thing, must fall, Kings, conquerors, and markets most of all.
Page 6 - Reader ! remember when thou wert a lad, Then Pitt was all ; or, if not all, so much, His very rival almost deem'd him such. We, we have seen the intellectual race Of giants stand, like Titans, face to face — Athos and Ida, with a dashing sea Of eloquence between, which flow'd all free, As the deep billows of the ^Egean roar Betwixt the Hellenic and the Phrygian shore. But where are they — the rivals ! —a few feet Of sullen earth divide each winding sheet.
Page 6 - How peaceful and how powerful is the grave Which hushes all ! a calm, unstormy wave Which oversweeps the world. The theme is old Of" Dust to dust;
Page 30 - They roar'd, they dined, they drank, they swore they meant To die for England — why then live? — for rent! The peace has made one general malcontent Of these high-market patriots ; war was rent ! Their love of country, millions all mis-spent, How reconcile ? by reconciling rent...
Page 30 - See these inglorious Cincinnati swarm, Farmers of war, dictators of the farm; Their ploughshare was the sword in hireling hands, Their fields manured by gore of other lands; Safe in their barns, these Sabine tillers sent Their brethren out to battle — why? for rent! Year after year they voted cent, per cent., Blood, sweat, and tear-wrung millions — why? for rent! They roared, they dined, they drank, they swore they meant To die for England — why then live?
Page 20 - Which freed the Atlantic! May we hope the same For outworn Europe? With the sound arise...
Page 23 - tis not frost-bit $ Now half dissolving to a liberal thaw, 440 * * / But hardened back whene'er the morning's raw ; With no objection to true liberty, Except that it would make the nations free.
Page 14 - A single step into the right had made This man the Washington of worlds betrayed; A single step into the wrong has given His name a doubt to all the winds of heaven...