OCCASIONED BY THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
FEBRUARY 1816.
OCCASIONED BY THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
THE Bard–whose soul is meek as dawning day, Yet trained to judgments righteously severe, Fervid, yet conversant with holy fear, As recognising one Almighty sway: He–whose experienced eye can pierce the array Of past events; to whom, in vision clear, The aspiring heads of future things appear, Like mountain-tops whose mists have rolled away– Assoiled from all encumbrance of our time, He only, if such breathe, in strains devout 10 Shall comprehend this victory sublime; Shall worthily rehearse the hideous rout, The triumph hail, which from their peaceful clime Angels might welcome with a choral shout!