Thy sons reproached with their great father's fame,1
And on his world inscribed another's name!

That world a prison-house, full of sights of woe,
Where groans burst forth, and tears in torrents flow!
These gardens of the sun, sacred to song,
By dogs of carnage,2 howling loud and long,
Swept till the voyager, in the desert air,3
Starts back to hear his altered accents there!4

"Not thine the olive, but the sword to bring,
Not peace, but war! Yet from these shores shall spring
Peace without end;5 from these, with blood defiled,

Spread the pure spirit of thy Master mild!

Here, in His train, shall arts and arms attend,

Arts to adorn, and arms but to defend.
Assembling here, all nations shall be blest;
The sad be comforted; the weary rest;
Untouched shall drop the fetters from the slave;
And He shall rule the world He died to save!

"Hence, and rejoice. The glorious work is done.

A spark is thrown that shall eclipse the sun!
And, tho' bad men shall long thy course pursue,
As erst the ravening brood o'er chaos flew,"
He, whom I serve, shall vindicate his reign;
The spoiler spoiled of all; the slayer slain ;

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1 "There go the sons of him who discovered those fatal countries," &c. (Hist.c.85.)

2 One of these, on account of his extraordinary sagacity and fierceness, received

the full allowance of a soldier. His name was Berezillo.

3 "With my own eyes I saw kingdoms as full of people, as hives are full of bees; and now where are they?"-LAS CASAS.

No unusual effect of an exuberant vegetation. "The air was so vitiated," says an African traveller, "that our torches burnt dim, and seemed ready to be extinguished; and even the human voice lost its natural tone."

5 See Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens.

6 See Paradise Lost, X.

7 Cortes. "A peine put-il obtenir audience de Charles-Quint: un jour il fendit la presse qui entourait le coche de l'empereur, et monta sur l'étrier de la portière. Charles demanda quel était cet homme; 'C'est,' répondit Cortes, 'celui qui vous a donné plus d'états que vos pères ne vous ont laissé de villes."-VOLTAIRE. 8"Almost all," says Las Casas, "have perished. The innocent blood, which

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