Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
ATTENTION!
Hark ! The clarion's shrill alarms,
Strike to the soul of slumbering thought,
Where on downy pillow laid,
Of soft delusive peace, it stray'd
In fancied dreams of innocence and ease;
Too long secure in flattering friendship's shade,
Too long for confidence, with fraud repaid.
Aroused, it calls aloud, " To Arms";
Quick the forc'd appeal is caught;
Down the laborer throws his spade,
And seizes on his trusty blade ;
The injur'd citizens their labors cease,
And private interest awhile neglect,
Their own and country's honor to protect.
Loud the guardian Eagle screams,
And soaring high on thund'ring wing,
Beckons all her honest brood,
To union for the public good.
Her wide spread pinions mark her firm desire
To shield her all who round her banners range.
To guard her freedom from the threatened change.
Mark, how her fiery eyeball gleams!
Her anger'd shrieks the welkin wring;
Alarm'd, no more the eastern rays
She welcomes with enraptur'd gaze.
But eyes them lightening with enanguin'd fire,
With war's fell ravage, threat'ning wide dismay,
Her plains, her cities, marking as the prey.
Yet firm as Washington's great soul,
She views with unblench'd eye the storm
Which ADAMS now in virtue's pride,
A second time is doom'd to guide.
She only fears her unsuspeting sons,
Too uninstructed in the world's deceit,
In ranks defensive may delay to meet.
Then let the drum its thunders roll,
Let the trumpet's clangor warm
Each heart that ever glow'd with fire
Which independence could inspire;
Quick the deluding hour of safety runs.
Our danger's near, :list ! list ! our country's call,
Prepar'd we vanquish, unprepared we fall.