Our naval thunders, and our tented fields

With travel'd banners fanning southern climes,

What do they? This; and more what can they do?

When heap'd the measure of a kingdom's crimes,

The prince most dauntless, the first plume of war,

By such bold inroads into foreign lands,

Such elongation of our armaments,

But stretches out the guilty nation's neck,

While Heaven commands her executioner,

Some less abandon'd nation, to discharge