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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to Valour</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Inscribed to Colonel Banastre Tarleton]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>TRANSCENDENT VALOUR! godlike Pow'r! <br>Lord of the dauntless breast, and stedfast mien! <br>Who, rob'd in majesty sublime, <br>Sat in thy eagle-wafted car, <br>And led the hardy sons of war, <br>With head erect, and eye serene, <br>Amidst the arrowy show'r; <br>When unsubdued, from clime to clime, <br>YOUNG AMMON taught exulting Fame <br>O'er earth's vast space to sound the glories of thy name. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">ILLUSTRIOUS VALOUR ! from whose glance, <br>Each recreant passion shrinks dismay'd; <br>To whom benignant Heaven consign'd, <br>All that can elevate the mind; <br>'Tis THINE, in radiant worth array'd, <br>To rear thy glitt'ring helmet high, <br>And with intrepid front, defy <br>Stern FATE's uplifted arm, and desolating lance, <br>When, from the CHAOS of primeval Night, <br>This wond'rous ORB first sprung to light; <br>And pois'd amid the sphery clime <br>By strong Attraction's pow'r sublime, <br>Its whirling course began; <br>With sacred spells encompass'd round, <br>Each element observ'd its bound, <br>Earth's solid base, huge promontories bore; <br>Curb'd OCEAN roar'd, clasp'd by the rocky shore; <br>And midst metallic fires, translucent rivers ran. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All nature own'd th'OMNIPOTENT's command! <br>Luxuriant blessings deck'd the vast domain; <br>HE bade the budding branch expand; <br>And from the teeming ground call'd forth the cherish'd grain; <br>Salubrious springs from flinty caverns drew; <br>Enamell'd verdure o'er the landscape threw; <br>HE taught the scaly host to glide <br>Sportive, amidst the limpid tide; <br>HIS breath sustain'd the EAGLE's wing; <br>With vocal sounds bade hills and valleys ring; <br>Then, with his Word supreme, awoke to birth <br>THE HUMAN FORM SUBLIME! THE SOV'REIGN LORD OF EARTH! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">VALOUR! thy pure and sacred flame<br>Diffus'd its radiance o'er his mind; <br>From THEE he learnt the fiery STEED to tame; <br>And with a flow'ry band, the speckled PARD to bind; <br>Guarded by Heaven's eternal shield, <br>He taught each living thing to yield; <br>Wond'ring, yet undismay'd he stood, <br>To mark the SUN's fierce fires decay; <br>Fearless, he saw the TYGER play; <br>While at his stedfast gaze, the LION crouch'd subdued! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From age to age on FAME's bright roll, <br>Thy glorious attributes have shone!<br>Thy influence soothes the soldier's pain, <br>Whether beneath the freezing pole, <br>Or basking in the torrid zone, <br>Upon the barren thirsty plain. <br>Led by thy firm and daring hand, <br>O'er wastes of snow, o'er burning sand, <br>INTREPID TARLETON chas'd the foe, <br>And smil'd in DEATH's grim face, and brav'd his with'ring blow! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When late on CALPE's rock, stern VICT'RY stood, <br>Hurling swift vengeance o'er the bounding flood; <br>Each winged bolt illum'd a flame, <br>IBERIA's vaunting sons to tame; <br>While o'er the dark unfathom'd deep, <br>The blasts of desolation blew, <br>Fierce lightnings hov'ring round the frowning steep, <br>'Midst the wild waves their fatal arrows threw; <br>Loud roar'd the cannon's voice with ceaseless ire, <br>While the vast BULWARK glow'd,a PYRAMID OF FIRE!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then in each BRITON's gallant breast, <br>Benignant VIRTUE shone confest ! <br>When Death spread wide his direful reign, <br>And shrieks of horror echoed o'er the main; <br>Eager they flew, their wretched foes to save <br>From the dread precincts of a whelming grave; <br>THEN, VALOUR was thy proudest hour! <br>THEN, didst thou, like a radiant GOD, <br>Check the keen rigours of th' avenging rod, <br>And with soft MERCY's hand subdue the scourge of POW'R! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When fading, in the grasp of Death, <br>ILLUSTRIOUS WOLFE on earth's cold bosom lay; <br>His anxious soldiers thronging round, <br>Bath'd with their tears each gushing wound; <br>As on his pallid lip the fleeting breath, <br>In faint, and broken accents, stole away, <br>Loud shouts of TRIUMPH fill'd the skies! <br>To Heaven he rais'd his gratelul eyes; <br>&quot;'TIS VIC'TRY'S VOICE,&quot; the Hero cried! <br>&quot;I THANK THEE, BOUNTEOUS HEAVEN,&quot;then smiling, DIED! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">TARLETON, thy mind, above the POET's praise <br>Asks not the labour'd task of flatt'ring lays!<br>As the rare GEM with innate lustre glows, <br>As round the OAK the gadding Ivy grows, <br>So shall THY WORTH, in native radiance live! <br>So shall the MUSE spontaneous incense give! <br>Th' HISTORIC page shall prove a lasting shrine, <br>Where Truth and Valour shall THY laurels twine; <br>Where,with thy name, recording FAME shall blend <br>The ZEALOUS PATRIOT, and the FAITHFUL FRIEND!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Darby+Robinson">Mary Darby Robinson</a><div class=q>
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TRANSCENDENT VALOUR! godlike Pow'r! 
Lord of the dauntless breast, and stedfast mien! 
Who, rob'd in majesty sublime, 
Sat in thy eagle-wafted car, 
And led the hardy sons of war, 
With head erect, and ..."></div>
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