WHY ART THOU SILENT? IS THY LOVE A PLANT. [TO A DISTANT FRIEND.] WHY art thou silent? Is thy love a plant Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant- 5 The mind's least generous wish a mendicant Speak-though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Than a forsaken bird's-nest filled with snow 'Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine 10 Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know! CAMPBELL. 5 HOHENLINDEN. ON Linden, when the sun was low, Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, By torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman drew his battle-blade, To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills with thunder riven 20 But redder yet that light shall glow And bloodier yet the torrent flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. 'Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, Few, few, shall part, where many meet! Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND. A NAVAL ODE. I. YE Mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze! Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe! And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. II. The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave!— For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave: Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, 15 Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. III. Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain-waves, Her home is on the deep. Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow; And the storm has ceased to blow. 35 15 40 |