Volume 1

Poems / [Robert Bloomfield].

  • Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823
Date:
1809
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Poems / [Robert Bloomfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ceylou, and the Continent of India. Well sped their errand ; with a patriot zeal They spread the blessing for their country's weaV. Where India's swarthy millions crowd the strand. And round that isle, which crowns their pointed land. Speeds the good angel with the balmy breath, And checks the dreadful tyranny of death : Whate'er we hear to hurt the peace of life. Of Candian treachery and British strife, The sword of commerce, nations bought and sold. They owe to England more than mines of gold ; England has sent a balm for private woe ; England strikes down the nation's bitterest foe. Europe, amidst the clangor of her arms. While life was threaten'd with a thousand harms, And Charity was freezing to its source, Still saw fair Science keep her steady course ; And, while whole legions fell, by friends deplor'd, New germs of life sprung up beneath the sword, M