Then Paita's walls, in wasting flames involv'd, His vengeance felt, and fair occasion gave
To shew humanity and continence,
To Scipio's not inferior. Then was left
No corner of the globe secure to pride
And violence, altho' the far-stretch'd coast
Of Chili, and Peru, and Mexico,
Arm'd in their evil cause; tho' fell Disease,
Un'bating Labour, tedious Time conspir'd;-
And Heat inclement, to unnerve his force;
Tho' that wide sea, which spreads o'er half the world,
Deny'd all hospitable land or port;
Where, seasons voyaging, no road he found
To moor, no bottom in th' abyss whereon
To drop the fastening anchor; tho' his brave
Companions ceas'd, subdu'd by toil extreme;
Tho' solitary left in Tinian's seas,
Where never was before the dreaded sound
Of Britain's thunder heard; his wave-worn bark
Met, fought the proud Iberian, and o'ercame.
So fare it ever with our country's foes!
Rejoice, ye Nations! vindicate the sway
Ordain'd for common happiness. Wide, o'er 655
The globe terraqueous, let Britannia pour
The fruits of plenty from her copious horn.
What can avail to her, whose fertile earth
By Ocean's briny waves are circumscrib'd,
The armed host, and murdering sword of war, 660 And conquest o'er her, neighbours? She ne'er breaks
Studious of arts and trade, she ne'er disturbs
The holy peace of states. 'Tis her delight
To fold the world with harmony, and spread, 665
Among the habitations of mankind,
The various wealth of toil, and what her Fleece,
To clothe the naked, and her skilful looms,
Peculiar give. Ye, too, rejoice, ye Swains!
Increasing commerce shall reward your cares. 670
A day will come, if not too deep we drink
The cup which luxury on careless wealth,
Pernicious gift! bestows; a day will come
When thro' new channels sailing, we shall clothe
The Californian coast, and all th' realms
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That stretch from Anian's Straits to proud Japan,
And the green isles, which on the left arise
Upon the glassy brine, whose various capes
Not yet are figur'd on the sailors' chart:
Then every variation shall be told
Of the magnetic steel, and currents mark'd
Which drive the heedless vessel from her course.
That portion, too, of land a track immense,
Beneath th' Antarctic spread, shall then be known,
And new plantations on its coast arise.
Then rigid winter's ice no more shall wound
The only naked animal; but man
With the soft Fleece shall every where be cloath'd. Th' exulting Muse shall then, in vigour fresh, Her flight renew : mean-while, with weary wing O'er ocean's wave returning, she explores
The Shepherds haunts, where the first springs arise Of Britain's happy trade, now spreading wide, Wide as th' Atlantic and Pacific seas,
Or as air's vital fluid o'er the globe.
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