A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

PODI.S OP J'R'&EDOX .&~D PATIUOTJIX. 25Q

Opposed to theae, a hoveriug baud

Coutended Cor their fatberlaJ:ul ;

Peau.uts, wboae new-found etrengt.h htod broke

From mtu~ly necka the ignoble yoke;

Manhall'd once more to freedom'• cell,

They came to oonquer or to fall

And now the wor'k of life 1\Dd death

Hung on the puaing of a breath ;

The fire of contlict burn'd withi.Jl ;

The battle t .rembled to begin ;

Yet, while the Auetriana held tlleir g•ound,

Point for &~~SAult wu nowhere found;

Where'er the impatient Swit.zera rued,

The unbroken line of lanOM btazea ;

That line 't were euieide to meet,

And perish at their tyrant.' feet.

Yet Striturl&nd i.a in the field,

She will not tly, ehe ea.nnot yield.

Few were the numben abe oould bout ;

But every freeman wu a boat,

And felt as 't were a eecre.t knoWD

That one ebould turn the IC&Ie alone ;

While each unto himeelf waa he

On whoee tolo arm htu~g victory.

It did depend on one, indeed ;
Behold h1m-ARNOLD WINDLB.l&D:
There tounda not to tho trump of Fame
The echo of a nobler name.
Unmuk'd, he etooJ amid the Uu-oog,
In romiMtion deep and long,
Till you might aeo, with sudden g:raee.
The very thought como o'er hi.a !ace ;
' A nd 1 by the motion of hia form,
Anttcipate the bureting storm;
And, by the uplifting of hia brow,
Tell where the bolt would atrike, and bow.

But 't 1r11a no sooner thonght than done,-

The field was in a moment won!

(^11) Make way (or libeTty I " he oried,

• Then ran with arme extended wide,
  A a if hia del\rett friend to clasp;
  Ten epeare be ewept within hia grup.

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