Give ear;—hill, vale and forest listeners are;

Force to each word their faithful echoes lend,

And with their Ruler’s prayers their own ascend.

[XLVII.]

“Mysterious Power! who dost in wonders speak,

We note thy tokens and their import spell;

Let Persecution still its vengeance wreak—

Let its fierce billows roll with mountain swell,

Here must we Anchor, and their force repel.

Here, more securely, shall our bannered State