Joseph Addison

Name: The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough
Author: Joseph Addison

The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

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“The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough”, published in 1710, is a work by Joseph Addison. It explores elements such as fill'd, Presence charm'd and Rais'd.

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Joseph Addison, The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

“ Britannia's Safety, and the World's Repose;
Let Nations anxious for thy Life abate
This Scorn of Danger, and Contempt of Fate:
Thou liv'st not for thy self; thy QUEEN demands
Conquest and Peace from thy Victorious Hands;
Kingdoms and Empires in thy Fortune join,
And Europe's Destiny depends on Thine.
At length the long-disputed Pass they gain,
By crouded Armies fortify'd in vain;
The War breaks in, the fierce Bavarians yield,
And see their Camp with British Legions fill'd.
So Belgian Mounds bear on their shatter'd Sides
The Sea's whole weight, encreas'd with swelling Tides ”

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Joseph Addison, The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

“ Britannia's graceful Sons appear in Arms,
Her Harras'd Troops the Heroe's Presence warms,
Whilst the high Hills and Rivers all around
With thund'ring Peals of British Shouts resound:
Doubling their Speed they March with fresh Delight,
Eager for Glory, and require the Fight.
So the stanch Hound the trembling Deer pursues,
And smells his Footsteps in the tainted Dews,
The tedious Track unrav'ling by degrees:
But when the Scent comes warm in ev'ry Breeze,
Fir'd at the near Approach, he shoots away
On his full Stretch, and bears upon his Prey. ”

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Joseph Addison, The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

“ The Heroe's Breast still swells with great Designs,
In ev'ry Thought the tow'ring Genius shines:
If to the Foe his dreadful Course he bends,
O'er the wide Continent his March extends;
If Sieges in his lab'ring Thoughts are form'd,
Camps are assaulted, and an Army storm'd:
If to the Fight his active Soul is bent,
The Fate of Europe turns on its Event. ”

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Joseph Addison, The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

“ The Royal Youth by MARLBRO's Presence charm'd;
Taught by his Counsels, by his Actions warm'd;
On Landau with redoubl'd Fury falls,
Discharges all his Thunder on its Walls;
O'er Mines and Caves of Death provokes the Fight,
And learns to Conquer in the Heroe's sight. ”

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Joseph Addison, The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

“ When Actions, Unadorn'd, are faint and weak,
Cities and Countries must be taught to speak:
Gods may descend in Factions from the Skies,
And Rivers from their Oozy Beds arise:
Fiction may deck the Truth with spurious Rays,
And round the Heroe cast a borrow'd Blaze.
MARLBRO's Exploits appear divinely bright,
And proudly shine in their own Native Light:
Rais'd of themselves, their genuin Charms they boast;
And those who Paint 'em truest, Praise 'em most.
FINIS.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”

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Joseph Addison, The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

“ Nations with Nations mix'd confus'dly die,
And lost, in one promiscuous Carnage lye. ”

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Joseph Addison, The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

“ And pleas'd th' Almighty's Orders to perform,
Rides in the Whirl-wind, and directs the Storm. ”

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Joseph Addison, The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

“ And make the Heroe and the Man compleat.
Long did he strive th'obdurate Foe to gain
By proffer'd Grace, but long he strove in vain;
'Till fir'd at length, he thinks it vain to spare
His rising Wrath, and gives a Loose to War.
In Vengeance rous'd the Soldier fills his Hand
With Sword and Fire, and ravages the Land;
A Thousand Villages to Ashes turns,
In crackling Flames a Thousand Harvests burns ”

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Joseph Addison, The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

“ The fatal Field by such great Leaders won,
The Field whence fam'd Eugenio bore away
Only the Second Honours of the Day.
With Floods of Gore that from the Vanquish'd fell,
The Marshes stagnate, and the Rivers swell.
Mountains of Slain lye heap'd upon the Ground,
Or 'midst the Roarings of the Danube drown'd;
Whole Captive Hosts the Conqueror detains
In painful Bondage, and inglorious Chains;
Ev'n those who 'scape the Fetters and the Sword,
Nor seek the Fortunes of a happier Lord,
Their raging King dishonours, to compleat
MARLBRO's Great Work, and finish the Defeat. ”

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Joseph Addison, The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

“ Rais'd of themselves, their genuin Charms they boast; ”

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Joseph Addison, The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

“ Unbounded Courage and Compassion join'd,
Temp'ring each other in the Victor's Mind,
Alternately proclaim him Good and Great,
And make the Heroe and the Man compleat. ”

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Joseph Addison, The Campaign: a Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough (1710)

“ Esse aliquam in terris Gentem quæ sua impensa, suo labore ac perilo bella gerat pro Libertate aliorum. Nec hoc finitimis, aut propinquæ vicinitatis hominibus, aut terris continenti junctis præstet. Maria trajiciat: ne quod toto orbe terrarum injustum imperium fit, & ubiq; jus, fas, lex potentissima sint. ”

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