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Rh VI.

Withdraw, then, thy presence from pleasure's gay bowers,

And smile but on him who braves danger and toil.

Thus beauty and virtue, asserting their powers,

Shall more than atone for the false Devorghoil.

VII.

Irresistible loveliness! wouldst thou but cherish

The patriot virtues, at once we are free;

But desert thou, or shrink, and as surely we perish—

For man takes the tone of his spirit from thee.

VIII.

Then, oh! if you'd teach us once more to recover

The glory that erst shed its light on thy brow,

Rend away from your lutes the soft strings of the lover,

And sing us no songs but of now.

IX.

A spirit is moving in light o'er the waters,

And he shouts through the stormy applause of the waves,

"How long, beloved land, shall thy glorious daughters

Be consorts or mothers of spiritless slaves?"

X.

Oh, rock-girdled Freedom! adored by the Roman,

In woman's dear form descend on our fanes,

And the mountains shall dance at the fall of the foeman,

To earth's heav'nliest music—the breaking of chains!

TOUCHING THE TARIFF AND INCOME TAX.