But no intreaty wakes the soft remorse, Oh, murder'd André! for thy sacred Corse; Vain were an army's, vain its Leader's sighs!-- Damp in the Earth on Hudson's shore it lies! Unshrouded welters in the wintry storm, And gluts the riot of the[83]Tappan Worm! But oh! its dust, like Abel's blood, shall rise, And call for justice from the angry skies! What tho' the Tyrants, with malignant pride, To thy pale Corse each decent rite deny'd! Thy graceful limbs in no kind covert laid, Nor with the Christian Requiem sooth'd thy shade! Yet on thy grass-green Bier soft April-show'rs Shall earliest wake the sweet spontaneous Flow'rs, Bid the blue Hare-bell and the Snow-drop there Hang their cold cup, and drop the pearly tear! And oft, at pensive Eve's ambiguous gloom, Imperial Honour, bending o'er thy tomb, With solemn strains shall lull thy deep repose, And with his deathless Laurels shade thy brows! Lamented Youth! while with inverted spear The British Legions pour th' indignant tear! Round the dropt arm the[84]funeral scarf entwine, And in their heart's deep core thy worth enshrine, While my weak Muse, in fond attempt and vain, But feebly pours a perishable strain, Oh! ye distinguish'd Few! whose glowing lays Bright Phœbus kindles with his purest rays, Snatch from its radiant source the living fire, And light with[85]Vestal flame your André's Hallow'd Pyre. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 68: Victor-garland--alluding to the conquest by Lord Cornwallis.] [Footnote 69: Bloody scroll. The court-martial decree, signed at Tappan, for Major André's execution.] [Footnote 70: _Julia_--the name by which Mr. André addressed the author in his correspondence with her.] [Footnote 71: _All his gifts._--Mr. André has conspicuous talents for Poetry, Music, and Painting. The newspapers mentioned a satiric poem of his upon Americans, which was supposed to have stimulated this barbarity towards him ["The Cow-Chase"].--Of his wit and vivacity, the letters subjoined to this work afford ample proof.--They were addressed to the author by Mr. André when he was a youth of eighteen.] [Footnote 72: _Early grave._--Miss Honora S. [Honora Sneyd], to whom Mr. André's attachment was of such singular constancy, died in a consumption a few months before he suffer'd death at Tappan. She had married another Gentleman [Richard Lovell Edgeworth] four years after her engagement with Mr. André had been dissolved by parental authority.] [Footnote 73: _Julia's arm._--Mr. André drew two miniature pictures of Miss Honora S. on his first acquaintance with her at Buxton, in the year 1769, one for himself, the other for the author of this poem.] [Footnote 74: _'Twas thus Apelles._--Prior is very elegant upon this circumstance in an Ode to his Friend, Mr. Howard the Painter.] [Footnote 75: _Hov'ring Rumour._--The tidings of Honora's Marriage. Upon that event Mr. André quitted his Profession as a Merchant and join'd our Army in America.]