THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH AND LIBERTY BY RICHARD LEE, Author of a Volume of Poems lately Published

Rouse, indolent mortals! why will ye remain Thus neuter in LIBRTY's cause? With one noble effort unrivet the chain, That binds you to tyranny's laws! In vain you petition, and urge your complaints, And mournfully seek for redress, The heart of oppression disdains to relent, Quite callous to all your distress.

The FATHER OF MERCIES has given to MAN, This earth, with the light and the air; Ten thousand kind blessings his liberal hand, Invites ALL his creatures to share; But tyrants would gladly monopolize all, Or SELL US what freely was given,— Then will ye submit to this basest of thrall, And purchase the free gifts of Heaven?

Let tyrants not think the CREATOR looks down, With total indifference on them; HE soon will assert the just rights of his throne, And the glory that's due to his name. The skies seem to redden with terrible wrath, And the grave is preparing their beds; The storm now impending is pregnant with death, And ready to burst on their heads.

In vain they confederate with Hell and with Rome, To keep us in ignorance bound: OMNIPOTENT TRUTH shall their malice o'ercome, And spread the wide universe round. Sweet LIBERTY civil and sacred shall fly, On the wings of the GOSPEL OF PEACE; Before the bright blaze superstition shall die, And War and oppression shall cease.

Thou Earth! and ye Heavens! exultingly sing, For MAN shall be fetter'd no more; No more be the jest of the courtier and king, The slave and the scorn of their pow'r. All nature look gay, and creation rejoice, For MAN is now doom'd to be free! And PROVIDENCE speaks with determined voice, To confirm the immortal decree.