Long had this favour’d isle enjoy’d True comforts, past expressing, When _France_ her hellish arts employ’d To rob us of each blessing: These from our hearths by force to tear (Which long we’ve learned to cherish) Our frantic foes shall vainly dare; We’ll keep ’em or we’ll perish— And every day our song shall be, “O give us Death—or Victory!” III. Let France in savage accents sing Her bloody Revolution; We prize our country, love our king, Adore our constitution; For these we’ll every danger face, And quit our rustic labours; Our ploughs to firelocks shall give place; Our scythes be changed to sabres; And clad in arms, our song shall be, “O give us Death—or Victory!” IV. Soon shall the proud invaders learn, When bent on blood and plunder, That British bosoms nobly burn To brave their cannon’s thunder: Low lie those heads, whose wily arts Have plann’d the world’s undoing! Our vengeful blades shall reach those hearts Which seek our country’s ruin; And night and morn our song shall be, “O give us Death—or Victory!” V. When, with French blood our fields manured, The glorious struggle’s ended, We’ll sing the dangers we’ve endured, The blessings we’ve defended: O’er the full bowl our feats we’ll tell, Each gallant deed reciting; And weep o’er those who nobly fell Their country’s battle fighting— And ever thence our song shall be, “’Tis VALOUR leads to VICTORY”. * * * * * [The following Song which furnished the hints for the one above was written by MILES PETER ANDREWS, M.P. for Bewdley, and a dealer in gunpowder; but his Plays, Prologues, Verses, &c., by no means resemble so active a composition. He, with other members of the “_Della Crusca_,” was savagely attacked and extinguished by W. Gifford in “_The Baviad_”. His song was set to music by Sir HENRY BISHOP. He died in 1814. I.