All the talents' garland or, A few rockets let off at a celebrated ministry. Including Elijah's mantle, the Uti Possidetis, and other poems of the same author. By eminent political characters. The third edition, greatly enlarged [by E. A. Barrett] |
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THE PALM OF VICTORY;
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THE PALM OF VICTORY;
OR, THE DISASTROUS DEFEAT OF THE SMALL BRITISH FORCE IN EGYPT, TO WHICH IT WAS SO IMPOLITICLY SENT BY THE LATE ADMINISTRATION.
No longer, now, on Egypt's sands
Do Britain's brave and patriot bands
Bear off the Palm of Victory:
But doom'd to barbarous hordes to yield,
Their ill-match'd numbers stain the field,
Stript of their Palm of Victory.
Do Britain's brave and patriot bands
Bear off the Palm of Victory:
But doom'd to barbarous hordes to yield,
Their ill-match'd numbers stain the field,
Stript of their Palm of Victory.
Disgrace, those rulers shall pursue,
Who sacrific'd “the valiant crew,”
Who in each measure, crudely plann'd,
Tarnish'd the laurels of the land.
Who sacrific'd “the valiant crew,”
Who in each measure, crudely plann'd,
Tarnish'd the laurels of the land.
Too well the pride of times, we're taught,
When Pitt directed, Nelson fought,
Crown'd with the Palm of Victory;
When on Aboukir's blazing shore,
From France the matchless hero tore
Th'ill-gotten Palm of Victory.
When Pitt directed, Nelson fought,
Crown'd with the Palm of Victory;
When on Aboukir's blazing shore,
From France the matchless hero tore
Th'ill-gotten Palm of Victory.
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Oh! days of glory, pass'd away,
When Abercromby bleeding lay,
Yet clasp'd the Palm of Victory;
Where Hutchinson triumphant led,
And foes, not Turks but Frenchmen, fled,
Yielding their Palm of Victory.
When Abercromby bleeding lay,
Yet clasp'd the Palm of Victory;
Where Hutchinson triumphant led,
And foes, not Turks but Frenchmen, fled,
Yielding their Palm of Victory.
Times, proud as those, may still return,
Since Britons now those rulers spurn,
Who lost the Palm of Victory;
And heroes, sacrific'd no more,
Shall, Britain's greatness to restore,
Regain the Palm of Victory.
Since Britons now those rulers spurn,
Who lost the Palm of Victory;
And heroes, sacrific'd no more,
Shall, Britain's greatness to restore,
Regain the Palm of Victory.
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