And redder yet those fires shall glow, 'Tis morn, but scarce yon lurid sun The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Ah! few shall part where many meet! TE MARINERS OF ENGLAND. A NAVAL ODE. 1. YE Mariners of England! That guard our native seas: Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe! And sweep through the deep, While the stormy tempests blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow. II. The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave! For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave: Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, III. Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below As they roar on the shore, When the stormy tempests blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow. IV. The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn; Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return. Then, then, ye ocean warriors! Our song and feast shall flow When the storm has ceas'd to blow; GLENARA. HEARD ye yon pibrach sound sad in the gile, Where a band cometh slowly with weeping and wail? "Tis the chief of Gleuara laments for his dear; And her sire, and the people, are call'd to her bier. Glenara came first with the mourners and shroud ; In silence they reach'd over mountain and moor, To a heath, where the oak-tree grew lonely and hoar; 'Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: "Why speak ye no word!'-said Glenara the stern. ⚫ And tell me, I charge you! ye clan of my spouse, 'Why fold ye your mantles, why cloud ye your brows?" So spake the rude chieftain :-no answer is made, But each mantle unfolding a dagger display'd. I dreamt of my lady, I dreamt of her shroud,' O! pale grew the cheek of that chieftain, I ween, When the shroud was unclos'd, and no lady was seen; When a voice from the kinsmen spoke louder in scorn, 'Twas the youth who had lov'd the fair Ellen of Lorn: I dreamt of my lady, I dreamt of her grief, In dust, low the traitor has knelt to the ground, And the desert reveal'd where bis lady was found; From a rock of the ocean that beauty is borne, Now joy to the house of fair Ellen of Lorn! |