These from the earth for ever to expel?
Rush on, resistless, to your destined prey,
Death and rapine point the way.”
E. 1.
Britons! stand firm! with stout and dauntless heart
Meet unappall’d the threatening boaster’s rage;
Yours is the great, the unconquerable part,
For your loved hearths and altars to engage,
And sacred Liberty, more dear than life—
Yours be the triumph in the glorious strife.