The New Hampshire Gazette

PERTH-AMBOY.

NASSAU HALL, September 27, 1759.

Yesterday the annual Commencement was held here. The Revd. Mr. Samuel Davies, lately elected President of the College of New-Jersey, delivered a Latin Oration, to the universal Applause of all his learned and numerous Auditors. The young Gentlemen (about 25 in Number) who were admitted to the usual Degrees in the Arts, performed the accustomed Exercises with uncommon Facility and Correctness. The whole Ceremony concluded with the following Ode, set to Music by Mr. James Lyon, one of the Students.

HEARFUL, fearles, and at ease.
On the downy Lap of Peace,
In the gentle Muses Seat.
Unmov'd at War's tremendous Roar,
That Consternation spreads from Shore to Shore,
O'er solid Continents, and tossing Waves,
From haughty Monarchs down to Slaves,
Low cringing at their Feet :
Far from Terror's loud Alarm:
Peaceful Nassau ! in thee we sing
We sing great George upon the Throne,
And AMHERST brave in Arms ;
While Bernard, in their milder charms
Makes the royal Virtues, known.
Chor. We sing great George, &c. &c.

The Sword of the Lord and of Amherst from far.
Gleaming tremendous, determines the War
At th' approaching Vengeance struck
Gallic Slaves, tho' long enur'd
To face the wide destroying Sword
At a proud Tyrant's Word.
Now disorder'd and broke,
Despairing, confounded,
With Terrors surrounded :
By Amherst's Name subdu'd,
By dread of Vengeance close pursu'd:
Vengeance due to sacred British Blood
The useless Sword they drop.
Nor dare for safety hope,
But in swift flight.
Beneath the Shade of Guilt-concealing Night.

We sing great George upon the Throne,
And AMHERST brave in Arms.
While BERNARD, in their milder Charms,
Make the royal Virtues known.

Happy, happy, happy, still,
Safe from all the Alarms of ill.
While George, the Friend of Man, adorns the Throne,
AMHERST shines in Arms ;
And BERNARD makes the royal Virtues known,
In all their milder Charms.
Happy, &c. &c.