Th' invaders strove to violate the shore,

Where Webster, Newcomb stand,-but floods of gore
Compell'd them to retire !-This wildness calm-
Your brothers guard you from offensive harm.
"Yon fiery rockets burning through the sky,
Show the sublime, without mortality;

Though to the shrinking sight, it seems that death
At every blast would burn us with his breath,
Yet in Mac Henry, only four with fame
Have fled to heaven upon the circling flame!
"The foe must seek his safety on the main-
My children, shelter, shelter from the rain!
No Vandal torch will e'er the city burn-

The High Supreme defends us!---To your homes return!"

As when the polar storms, tempestuous driven,
Dash chafing billows, foaming up to heaven-
Grinding to powder'd dust the granite shores,
Whilst loud the firmament like deafening roars.
At length outspent the howling of the North,
The tempest dies!-the South comes gliding forth,
Borne on the chariot of a silver breeze,
And smooths the surface of the ruffled seas:

So hush'd the tumults of the tender breast,
When Howard gave the promise of their rest.

Cochrane perceiving that the strife was vain, Bounded to Brook, and thus with hurrying pain:

England's defence! behold we 've come too late, The capital with flame to demonstrate,

Hence wheel the army rapid as a flight,
Whilst every star is blinded with the night.
Cockburn is order'd to inflame the air,

To keep engag'd the soil-defenders there."

Brook felt his language true, and, at the word, Wheel'd,—made the beach,-embark'd his troops on board,

While Cockburn shook the sphere;-at early beam, He left Mac Henry----floated down the stream.

Soon were the clouds dissolv'd,-the mantling red Hover'd with beauty round the mountain's head. The plains slow open'd, and expos'd to sight The foe departed with the shades of night!

A holy transport swells from tongue to tongueTears of warm rapture stream from old and young; Wives, husbands, mothers, sisters, brothers press, Each to his bosom, lost in happiness!

ARGUMENT.

The cities fortify against invasion. Fort Bowyer. Cochrane's arrival in the Bay of Saint Louis. Jones with five gun-boats contends with forty-five vessels of the enemy. The landing of the advance of the English army. Jackson's night attack. The British make several unsuccessful attempts to gain the breastworks. The decisive battle before New Orleans. Conclusion.

The scene is laid at the places above mentioned and on the plains below the city. The time is nineteen days.