A POLITICAL LITANY 139 AMERICAN LIBERTY, A POEM 142 GENERAL GAGE'S SOLILOQUY 152 THE MIDNIGHT CONSULTATIONS, OR, A TRIP TO BOSTON 158 THE SILENT ACADEMY 182 LINES TO A COASTING CAPTAIN 184 TO THE AMERICANS 185 THE VERNAL AGUE 188 GENERAL GAGE'S CONFESSION 189 THE DISTREST SHEPHERDESS 195 MARS AND HYMEN 197 MACSWIGGEN, A SATIRE 206 THE HOUSE OF NIGHT 212 THE JAMAICA FUNERAL 239 THE BEAUTIES OF SANTA CRUZ 249 ON A HESSIAN DEBARKATION, 1776 269 THE JEWISH LAMENTATION AT EUPHRATES 270 AMERICA INDEPENDENT 271 ON AMANDA'S SINGING BIRD 283 ON THE NEW AMERICAN FRIGATE ALLIANCE 285 ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN NICHOLAS BIDDLE 288 CAPTAIN JONES'S INVITATION 290 THE SEA VOYAGE 293 LIFE OF PHILIP FRENEAU 1752-1832 LIFE OF PHILIP FRENEAU I. In the possession of the Freneau descendants there is an old French Bible, printed in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1587, which preserves an unbroken roll of the heads of the family back to the original owner of the book, Philip Fresneau, who on his death-bed in La Chapelle, France, in 1590, gave it into the hands of his eldest son. For five generations the book remained in the little suburban village, its possessors sturdy, industrious tradesmen, who stood high in the esteem of their community and yet who on account of their Protestant faith were often imposed upon and at times even persecuted. It was doubtless this feeling of insecurity, if not positive persecution, which compelled André Fresneau, like so many of his fellow Huguenots, to leave his native village and to seek a home in a more tolerant land.