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Mess Anna Seward C.

Fub. March 1,181, by Dean is Munday Threadneedle Street.

ON

MAJOR AND RÈ ;

AND

ELEGY

ON CAPTAIN COOK.

BY

MISS SEWARD.

ALSO,

SYMPATHY.-A POEM.

BY MR. PRATT.

A New Edition.

WITH ENGRAVINGS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR OTRIDGE AND RACKHAM,
IN THE STRAND.

1821. NEW YORK

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PUBLIC
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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 155751

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899.

Monody

ON

MAJOR ANDRÈ.

LOUD howls the storm! the vex'd Atlantic

roars!

Thy Genius, Britain, wanders on its shores!
Hears cries of horror wafted from afar,

And groans of anguish, 'mid the shrieks of war!
Hears the deep curses of the Great and Brave,
Sigh in the wind, and murmur on the wave!
O'er his damp brow the sable crape he binds,
And throws his *victor-garland to the winds;
• Victor-garland.-Alluding to the conquest by
Lord Cornwallis.

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Bids haggard Winter, in her drear sojourn,
Tear the dim foliage from her drizzling urn,
With sickly yew unfragrant cypress twine,
And hang the dusky wreath round honor's shrine.
Bids steel-clad valour chace his dove-like bride,
Enfeebling mercy, from his awful side;
Where long she sat, and check'd the ardent rein,
As whirl'd his chariot o'er th' embattled plain;
Gilded with sunny smile her April tear,
Rais'd her white arm and stay'd the uplifted

spear;

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Then, in her place, bids vengeance mount the And glut with gore th'insatiate dogs of war! With one pale hand the bloody scroll he rears, And bids his nations blot, it with their tears; And one, extended o'er th' Atlantic wave, Points to his Andrè's ignominious grave!

+ Bloody Scroll.-The Court-Martial decree, signed at Tappan, for Major Andrè's execution.

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