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Rh Fresh praise is try'd till madness fires his mind, The waves he lashes, and enchains the wind; New powers are claim'd, new powers are still bestow'd, Till rude Resistance lops the spreading god; The daring Greeks deride the martial show, And heap their valleys with the gaudy foe; Th' insulted sea with humbler thoughts he gains, A single skiff to speed his flight remains; The incumbered oar scarce leaves the dreaded coast, Through purple billows and a floating host.
 * The bold Bavarian, in a luckless hour,

Tries the dread summits of Caesarian power, With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless realms receive his sway; Short sway! fair Austria spreads her mournful charms, The queen, the beauty, sets the world in arms; From hill to hill the beacon's rousing blaze Spreads wide the hope of plunder and of praise; The fierce Croatian, and the wild Hussar, With all the sons of ravage, crowd the war; The baffled prince, in honour's flattering bloom, Of hasty greatness finds the fatal doom; His foes' derision, and his subjects' blame; And steals to death from anguish and from shame.