88. "But now the winds are past, the storm subsides, All nature smiles again serenely gay, The beauteous groves renew'd--how shall I leave My green retreat at Butler's verdant bay." 96. "Fain would I view my native climes again, But murder marks the cruel Briton there-- Contented here I rest, in spite of pain, And quaff the enlivening juice in spite of care." 100. "The misty night sits heavy on the sea, Yon lagging sail drags slowly o'er the main, Night and its kindred glooms are nought to me." 104. "Then shepherd haste, and leave behind thee far The bloody plains and iron glooms above, Quit thy cold northern star, and here enjoy, Beneath the smiling skies this land of love." Each of the later editions passed under the revising pen of Freneau, but the variations consisted largely of verbal changes. As a sample of his revision, note the following: Stanza 3, 1779, "Two weeks, with prosperous gales"; 1786, "Twice seven days prosperous gales"; 1809, "Twice ten days prosperous gales"; 26, 1779, "And tho' fierce Sol his beams directly shed"; 1786, "And though the noon-sun all his radiance shed"; 1795, "The noon sun his fierce radiance shed"; 30, 1779, "fruits that over-top the wood"; 1786, "fruits, the richest of the wood"; 1795, "fruits the noblest of the wood"; 38, 1779, "peaked hill"; 1786, "steepy hill"; 1795, "blue-brow'd hill"; 41, 1779, "lovely green"; 1786, "lively green"; 1795, "liveliest green." Freneau added three stanzas to the later versions. After stanza 16 above, be added the following: "The native here, in golden plenty blest, Bids from the soil the verdant harvests spring; Feasts in the abundant dome, the joyous guest; Time short,--life easy,--pleasure on the wing." Following this he added stanza 43 of "The Jamaica Funeral." Stanza 49 of "The House of Night" was interpolated between 90 and 91. Stanzas 35-38 were omitted from the 1786 version, and in connection with stanzas 39-43 of "The House of Night," became the "Elegiac Lines" of the later editions. The text of the 1795 version was almost unrevised for the 1809 edition. ON A HESSIAN DEBARKATION[159] 1776 _There is a book, tho' not a book of rhymes, Where truth severe records a nation's crimes;-- To check such monarchs as with brutal might Wanton in blood, and trample on the right._ Rejoice, O Death!--Britannia's tyrant sends From German plains his myriads to our shore; The Caledonian with the English joined:-- Bring them, ye winds, but waft them back no more. To these far climes with stately step they come, Resolved all prayers, all prowess to defy; Smit with the love of countries not their own, They come, indeed, to conquer--not to die. In the slow breeze (I hear their funeral song,) The dance of ghosts the infernal tribes prepare: To hell's dark mansions haste, ye abandoned throng, Drinking from German sculls old Odin's beer.