Si nostros sciret, durus licet, ille dolores,

Vix hyemem miseros lædere vellet acrem:

IV.

Blandule væ! friges, friges; calor ossa reliquit ;

Suscitet ex oculis fervida gutta meis !

Fervida gutta fluit, fed congelat aura Auentem :

Ah ! nunc infelix, orbaque mater ego.”

V.

Jam nive congeftâ miserè prolabitur exspes,
Infandumque gemit, quod dolor intùs agit ;

277 Tum lateri natum apponens, atque oscula figens mus!

Suspicit, et flectit, morte gravata, caput.

THE SON OF ALKNOMOOK,

OR THE

INDIAN DEATH.SONG.

I.

THE
HE sun sets in night, and the stars thun the day,

But glory remains, when their lights fade away :
Begin ye tormentors ; your threats are in vain :
For the son of Alknomook shall never complain.

II.

Remember the arrows, he shot from his bow,

Remember your chiefs, by his hatchet laid low;

Why so flow? do you wait, till I shrink from the pain ?

No, the son of Alknomook shall never complain.

III.

Remember the wood, where in ambush we lay,
And the scalps, that we bore from your nation away ;
Now the flame rises fast; you exult in my pain;

ز

But the son of Alknomook can never complain.

Fingite nunc animis, quæ fpicula misit ab arcu,

Fingite, ductores quos ascia morte fubegit,

Quid statis? non me poterunt terrere dolores ;
Non; satus Alknomook nunquam dabit ore querelas.

IV.

I go to the land, where my father is gone,

His ghost shall rejoice in the fame of his fon;
Death comes like a friend, he relieves me from pain:
And thy fon, O Alknomook, has fcorn'd to complain.

THE DEATH OF ALICO,

AN AFRICAN SLAVE, CONDEMNED FOR REBELLION,

IN JAMAICA, 1762,

BY BRYANT EDWARDS, ESQ. OF JAMAICA.

I.

'TIS paft !--ah ! calm thy * cares to reft!

Firm and unmoy'd am I;

In freedom's cause I bar'd my breast,

In freedom's cause I die.

II.

Ah! stop, thou doft me fatal wrong,
Nature will yet rebel;

;

For IV.

Quæ tenet arva parens, eadem mox arva tenebo;

Illius et manes mulcebit gloria prolis :

Mors, ut amica, venit, cruciatûs vincula solvit :

Heu! cohibe, tales fodiunt mea pectora questus;

Quas domui, curas vox tua mæsta ciet :

Nam