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 Our circuit now complete, around the , Ere from this eminence we venture down, Be pleas'd to look once more t’ward , Where glittering spears, and troops, are seen, Where splendid display, And are rang'd in fair array.

When dangers threat’ned 's favourite Isle, Ere British bulwarks thunder'd off the , A warlike band arose, a valiant host, To guard the fam'd 's sea-girt coast; , fir’d with ardent zeal, Pour'd forth their sons, to guard the Common-weal; , join'd and , And produc'd a chosen band, Of and, -to aid their Country's cause,

Protect their King, their, and. These are the troops, in training, now you view, The wear, the.