Coast of France rises in vision. Louis, to humble the British power, forms an alliance with the American states. This brings France, Spain and Holland into the war, and rouses Hyder Ally to attack the English in India. The vision returns to America, where the military operations continue with various success. Battle of Monmouth. Storming of Stonypoint by Wayne. Actions of Lincoln, and surrender of Charleston. Movements of Cornwallis. Actions of Greene, and battle of Eutaw. French army arrives, and joins the American. They march to besiege the English army of Cornwallis in York and Gloster. Naval battle of Degrasse and Graves. Two of their ships grappled and blown up. Progress of the siege. A citadel mined and blown up. Capture of Cornwallis and his army. Their banners furled and muskets piled on the field of battle. Thus view'd the Pair; when lo, in eastern skies, From glooms unfolding, Gallia's coasts arise. Bright o'er the scenes of state a golden throne, Instarr'd with gems and hung with purple, shone; Young Bourbon there in royal splendor sat, And fleets and moving armies round him wait. For now the contest, with increased alarms, Fill'd every court and roused the world to arms; As Hesper's hand, that light from darkness brings, And good to nations from the scourge of kings, In this dread hour bade broader beams unfold, And the new world illuminate the old. In Europe's realms a school of sages trace The expanding dawn that waits the Reasoning Race; On the bright Occident they fix their eyes, Thro glorious toils where struggling nations rise; Where each firm deed, each new illustrious name Calls into light a field of nobler fame: A field that feeds their hope, confirms the plan Of well poized freedom and the weal of man. They scheme, they theorize, expand their scope, Glance o'er Hesperia to her utmost cope; Where streams unknown for other oceans stray, Where suns unseen their waste of beams display, Where sires of unborn nations claim their birth, And ask their empires in those wilds of earth. While round all eastern climes, with painful eye, In slavery sunk they see the kingdoms lie, Whole states exhausted to enrich a throne, Their fruits untasted and their rights unknown; Thro tears of grief that speak the well taught mind, They hail the æra that relieves mankind.