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TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR ROWLAND HILL, K.B., by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hill! Whose high daring with renew'd success
Last Line: Gild with delight thy father's latter days!
Subject(s): England; War; English


HILL! whose high daring with renew'd success
Hath cheered our tardy war, what time the cloud
Of expectation, dark and comfortless,
Hung on the mountains; and yon factious crowd
Blasphemed their country's valour, babbling loud!
Then was thine arm reveal'd, to whose young might,
By Toulon's leaguer'd wall, the fiercest bow'd;
Whom Egypt honour'd, and the dubious fight
Of sad Corunna's winter, and more bright
Douro, and Talavera's gory bays;
Wise, modest, brave, in danger foremost found. --
So still, young warrior, may thy toil-earn'd praise,
With England's love and England's honour crown'd,
Gild with delight thy father's latter days!





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