...names shall shine, Unending ages greet the group divine, 70 Whose holy hands our banners first unfuiTd And conquer'd freedom for the grateful world. And...rampart stood, Illustrious relics of a thousand fields! ft To you at last the foe reluctant yields. But tho the Muse, too prodigal of praise, Dares with the...

...train." The danger of losing LIBERTY by inattention, illustrated in the Rape of the Q-olden Fleece. " Think not, my friends, the patriot's task is done, Or freedom safe, because the battle's won. Unnumber'd foes, far different arms that wield, Wait the weak moment when she quits her shield, To...

...addressing in his own person his fellow-countrymen as they emerge from the Revolutionary War, he says : " Think not, my friends, the patriot's task is done, Or Freedom safe, because the battle 's won." ' Peace, he tells them, hath her responsibilities and her dangers, no less than her...

...names shall shine, Unending ages greet the group divine, Whose holy hands our banners first unfurl'd, And conquer'd freedom for the grateful world. And...is done, Or Freedom safe, because the battle's won. Unnumber'd foes, far different arms that wield, Wait the weak moment when she quits her shield, To...

...Cornwallis. In Book VIII the poet addresses his fellow countrymen as they emerge from the struggles of war: "Think not my friends, the patriot's task is done, Or Freedom safe, because the battle's won." The poem rises in the end to prophecy and gives a vision of international peace and good will — "a...

...Republican poet echoed Jefferson's anxiety about the health of political liberty, with this caution: "Think not, my friends, the patriot's task is done, / Or freedom safe, because the battle's won." When his second term as president came to an end in 1 809, Jefferson once again sought to interest...