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AMIDST the clamour of exulting joys, / Which triumph forces from the patriot heart, / Grief dares to mingle her soul-piercing voice, / And quells the raptures which from pleasures start.
O WOLFE! to thee a streaming flood of woe, / Sighing we pay, and think e'en conquest dear; / QUEBEC in vain shall teach our breast to glow, / Whilst thy sad fate extorts the heart-wrung tear.
Alive the foe thy dreadful vigour fled, / And saw thee fall with joy-pronouncing eyes: / Yet they shall know thou conquerest, though dead- / Since from thy tomb a thousand heroes rise!