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COLUM BI AD.

Who fear d no adverfe ftorms, or vile difgrace, While; he poiTcfs'^d his royal matter's grace. Yet v/ile to bar again it all future blame. Alone he ne'er would play a defp'rate game. The Peers and Commons in full Parllanient, Murt leal his plans, and give their full conCent.

Pleas 'd with this thought, he moves the king to f( His writs imperial, to eachtiuity friend: The royal mandate goes through all the land, The peers alTemble at the king's command; — Then North appear 'd in all the pomp of pow'r, And Ihew'd a bait mo ft tempting to devour. To tax Columbia's fons, the darling theme;— Eaiy and fafe both lords and commons deem; But ah 1 v/hat w^oes 1 how many Britons fell For this one caufe I — be mine the talk to tell.

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CANTO II.

li^OON as Columbia heard the Hern decree, She fighing, faid, my fors (hall yet be free. With eiger hafte, to Albion's fliore fhe moves. To feel: Britannia in her native groves : — Nor in the groves, nor at the court was Tne, But on the margin of the rolling' fea! Propp'd on a rock — beneath the willow's fbade. All bath'd in tears — iht found the lovely maid, Stern 'defpotlfm fl!ak.^s-]|Ar iixon hand."
 * ' Such tears ss patriots Thed, v^htn o'er the land.

Al! hialL Britannia?~thus Columbia va'd : — .* 1)! why this forrow : — are thy offspring dead? ^ I woo-ildthey v/ere, Britannia quick reply'd — They're dead Lo ia.ne — to baienefi: clofs ally'd :