To hear them, listen to them thus convey’d
At least, as in the accents of my Muse.
ON THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR.
Not with an easy hand wills Fate to give
Nations, or heroes, power and renown:
Triumphant Rome, whose empire to receive
A hemisphere submissively bow’d down,
Yielding itself in silent servitude,
How often did she vanquish’d groan? repell’d
As she her course of loftiness pursued!