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Or as a dyke cut by malicious hands,
O'erflows the fertile Netherlands ;

Thro' the wide yawn, th' impetuous fea,
Lavish of his new liberty,

Beftrides the vale, and, with tumultuous noise,

Bellows along the delug'd plain

Pernicious to the rip'ning grain ;

Far as th' horizon he destroys:
Theweeping fhepherd from an hill bewails thewat❜ryreign.
VIII.

So rapid flows the unimprifon'd stream!
So ftrong the force of MINDELHEIM !
In vain the woods of Audenard

Would shield the Gaul, a fenceless guard.
As foon may whirl-winds be with-held,
ASMARLB'ROUGH's footsteps o'er the foaming Scheld.
In vain the torrent would oppofe,

In vain arm'd banks, and hosts of foes:

The foes with coward-hafte retire,

Fly fafter than the river flows,

And fwifter than our fire.

Vendofme from far upbraids their fhame,
And pleads his royal master's fame.

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By Conde's mighty ghoft," he cries, "By Turenne, Luxemburgh, and all

Those noble fouls, who fell a facrifice

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At Lens, at Fleurus, and at Landen fight, "Stop, I conjure, your ignominious flight." But Fear is deaf to Honour's call.

Each frowning threat and foothing pray'r
Is loft in the regardless air:

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The billows of the ocean ftay;

While CHURCHILL like a driving wind,
Or high fpring-tide, pursues behind,
And with redoubled speed urges their forward way.
IX.

Nor lefs, EUGENIUS, thy important care,
Thou fecond thunder-bolt of war!

Partner in danger and in fame,

The wind, with MARLBOROUGH's, fhall bear To diftant colonies thy conqu'ring name. Nor fhall my Mufe forget to fing From harmony what bleffings spring: To tell how Death did enviously repine, To fee a friendship so divine; When in a ball's destroying form fhe past, And mark'd thy threaten'd brow at last, But durft not touch that facred brain, Where Europe's mightiest counsels reign ; For ftrait fhe bow'd her ghaftly head, She faw the mark of heav'n, and fled,

Near this place the prince of Condè gave the Spaniards a very great overthrow, 1648.

As

As cruel Brennus once, infulting Gaul,
When he, at Allia's fatal flood,

Had fill'd the plains with Roman blood,
With conscious awe forfook the capitol,
Where Jove, revenger of profaneness, stood.
X.

But where the good and brave command,
What capitol, what bulwark can withstand?
Virtue, approv'd of heav'n, can pafs

Thro' walls, thro' tow'rs, and gates of brafs,
Lifle, like a mistress, had been courted long,
By all the valiant and the young,
The fairest progeny of Vauban's art;

"Till SAVOY's warlike prince withstood Her frowning terrors, and thro' feas of blood

Tore the bright darling from th' old tyrant's heart. Suche Buda faw him, when proud f Apti fell,

Unhappy, valiant infidel!

Who, vanquish'd by superior strength,
Surrender'd up his haughty breath,

Upon the breach measuring his manly length,
And shun'd the bow-ftring by a nobler death.

e He bore a confiderable fhare in the glory of that day on which Buda was taken.

f He was Baffau of the city, and loft his life on the breach.

XI. Such

XI.

Such & Harfcam's field beheld him in his bloom,
When Victory bespoke him for her own.

Her favourite, immortal fon,

And told of better years revolving on the loom :
How he should make the Turkish crefcent wane,
And choakh Tibiscus with the flain;
While Viziers lay beneath the lofty pile
Of flaughter'd Baffaus, who o'er Baffaus roll'd;
And all his num'rous acts fhe told,

From Latian Carpi down to Flandrian Lisle.
XII.

Honour, with open arms, receives at last
The heroes who thro' Virtue's temple past ;
And fhow'rs down laurels from above,

On those whom heav'n and ANNA love.

* This was the fatal battle to the Turks in the year 1687.` Prince Eugene, with the regiments of his brigade, was the firft that entered the trenches; and for that reason had the honour to be the first messenger of this happy news to the emperor.

h This battle was fought on the 10th of October, 1697, where Prince Eugene commanded in chief; like which there never happened fo great and fo terrible a destruction to the Ottoman army, which fell upon the principal commanders more than the common foldiers; for no less than fifteen Baffaus (five of which had been Vixiers of the bench) were killed, befides the fupreme Vizier.

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And fome, not sparingly, she throws
For the young eagles, who could try
The faith and judgment of the sky,
And dare the fun with steady eye;

For Hanover's and Pruffia's brows,
Eugenes in bloom, and future Marlboroughs :
To Hanover, to Brunswick's fecond grace,
Defcendent from a long imperial race,
The Muse directs her honourable flight,
And prophefies, from fo ferene a morn,
To what clear glories he is born,
When blazing with a full meridian light,
He fhall the British hemisphere adorn;
When Mars fhall lay his batter'd target down,
And he, (fince Death will never spare
The good, the pious, and the fair)
In his ripe harvest of renown,
Shall after his great father fit,
(If heav'n fo long a life permit)
And having fwell'd the flowing tide
Of fame, which he in arms fhall

The purchase of an honeft fweat,

get,

Shall safe in stormy feas Britannia's vessel guide.

XIII. Britannia's

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