The nations now more blest than thee Shall see their haughty Despots fall, What time thy hapless fate shall be The scorn and pity of them all. View, Britannia, &c. Thy haughty Tyrants ne’er shall bend The glorious cause of Freedom down; Their rage shall fan the sacred flame, And work their woes and her renown. View, Britannia, &c. Thee best becomes the contrite strain, For cities drench’d with human gore, For crimes which tinge the orient main, And banish peace from Afric’s shore View, Britannia, &c. The Muses still with Freedom found, Shall from thy venal court repair, To sing on Gallia’s freer ground, Or breathe Columbia’s purer air. View, Britannia, &c. From _The Wreath of Freedom, or Patriot’s Song Book_. Newcastle 1820. ―――― A CORN LAW RHYME. When Freedom’s foes mock’d labours’ groan, And, drunk with power, contemn’d the throne, God bade great William rule the waves; And William scorn’d to govern slaves. Rule, great William, rule the free! William Britain’s shield will be! On their hard hearts they ground their words, And made them sharp as traitors’ swords, But cower’d, like dogs, beneath his eye, When millions shouted to the sky, Rule, great William, rule the free! William Freedom’s shield shall be! He broke his bonds o’er Rapine’s head; “Free men! Free bread!” great William said, And like a second Alfred stood, King of the happy and the good; While the free, from sea to sea, Sang, Great William rules the free! EBENEZER ELLIOTT. In this, Elliott’s wish was father to the thought, for William IV., did not live to see the repeal of the Corn Laws. Another long imitation of _Rule Britannia_, entitled “The Triumph of Reform,” also appears amongst the _Corn Law Rhymes_, which were collected and published by Benjamin Steill, London, in 1844. ―――― RULE SLAVEOWNIA. (The National Hymn of the Confederate States.) When first the South, to fury fanned, Arose and broke the Union’s chain, This was the Charter, the Charter of the land, And Mr. Davis sang the strain: Rule Slaveownia, Slaveownia rules, and raves “Christians ever, ever, ever have had slaves.”