No human lamentations, Tlie trees you see them cutting yonder

Are all my near relations.

" And I, forlorn, implore thine aid

To free the sacred grove : So shall thy prowess be repaid

With an immortal's love."

Now some, to prove she was a goddess I

Said this enchanting fair Had late retired from the Bodies,*

In all the pomp of war.

That drums and merry flfes had play'd

To honour her retreat. And Cunningham himself convey'd

The lady through the street.

Great Wayne, by soft compassion sway' J,

To no inquiry stoops. But takes the fair, afflictea maid

Right into Yan Van Poop's.

* A cant appellation given among the soldiery to the corps that had the honour to guard liis majesty' person.

446 THE HUDSON.

So Eoman Anthony, tliey say, Disgrar ed th' imperial banner.

And for a gipsy lost a day, Like Anthony tlie tanner.

The Hamadryad had but half Received redi-ess from Wayne,

When drums and colours, cow and calf Came down the road amain.

All in a cloud of dust were seen, The sheep, the horse, the goat.

The gentle heifer, ass obscene, The yearling and the slioat.

And pack-horses with fowls came liy,

Befeathered on each side. Like Pegasus, the horse that I

And other poets ride.

Sublime upon the stirrups rose

The mighty Lee behind. And drove the terror-smitten cows,

Lilce chaff before the wind.

But sudden see the woods above

Pour down another corps, All belter skelter in a drove.

Like that I sung before.