_For the Revolution Jubilee_, 1788.
When lawless power his iron hand,
When blinded zeal her flaming brand
O’er Albion’s island wav’d;
Indignant freedom veil’d the sight;
Eclips’d her son of glory’s light;
Her fav’rite realm enslav’d.
Distrest she wander’d:--when afar
She saw her Nassau’s friendly star
Stream through the stormy air:
She call’d around a patriot band;
She bade them save a sinking land;
And deathless glory share.
Her cause their dauntless hearts inspir’d,
With ancient Roman virtue fir’d,
They plough’d the surging main;
With fav’ring gales from Belgia’s shore
Her heaven-directed hero bore,
And freedom crown’d his reign.
With equal warmth her spirit glows,
Though hoary Time’s centennial snows
New silver o’er her fame.
For hark, what songs of triumph tell,
Still grateful Britons love to dwell
On William’s glorious name.
[390] Kennett.
[391] A provincial name for a _Magpie_.
[392] Rapin, xv. 199.
[393] Deering’s Nottingham, p. 258.
[394] Son and heir of Conyers earl of Holderness.
[395] For the earl of Devonshire’s proceedings at Derby and
Whittington, see Mr. Deering’s History of Nottingham, p. 260. Mr.
Drake, p. 177 of his Eboracum, just mentions the earl of Danby’s
appearance at York.
[396] Pegge’s Anecdotes of Old Times, p. lxiii, &c.
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