LINES Written on a blank Leaf of Col. Humphrey's Poems

When first the savage voice of WAR We heard, Death bellowing from afar Across the surging seas, Thy tuneful lyra, hadst thou strung, And Liberty's enchantments sung, The music floating from thy tongue Had bid the tumult cease: Soon had it quell'd the fierce alarms, The foes, sooth'd by its soft'ning charms, Had gladly thrown aside their arms, And sued for smiling PEACE.