5. And when the cloud upon us came, 6. Still may thy spirit dwell on mine, And teach it what to brave or brookThere's more in one soft word of thine Than in the world's defied rebuke. DLE 7. Thou stood'st, as stands a lovely tree, Still waves with fond fidelity Its boughs above a monument. 8. The winds might rend-the skies might pour, To shed thy weeping leaves o'er me. 9. But thou and thine shall know no blight, For heaven in sunshine will requite 10. Then let the ties of baffled love 11. And these, when all was lost beside, Earth is no desert-ev'n to me. ODE. [FROM THE FRENCH.] I. We do not curse thee, Waterloo! Though Freedom's blood thy plain, bedew; There 'twas shed, but is not sunk— Rising from each gory trunk, Like the Water-spout from ocean, As then shall shake the world with wonder Never yet was seen such lightning As o'er heaven shall then be bright'ning! By the sainted Seer of old, Show'ring down a fiery flood, II. The Chief has fallen, but not by you, When the soldier citizen Sway'd not o'er his fellow men— With that youthful chief competed? And thou too of the snow-white plume! Than sold thyself to death and shame Such as he of Naples wears, Shone and shiver'd fast around thee- Once as the Moon sways o'er the tide, IV. O'er glories gone the invaders march, With her heart in her voice; |