SONGS, ODES, AND OTHER POEMS, ON NATIONAL SUBJECTS; COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. BY WM. MCCARTY. PART SECOND-NAVAL. "Don't give up the ship." "Remote from realms of rival fame, Thy bulwark is thy mound of waves; PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY WM. MCCARTY, NO. 27 NORTH FIFTH STREET. ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by WM. MCCARTY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. TENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK Stereotyped by L. Johnson, Philadelphia. This Volume is Dedicated To the memory of Captain NICHOLAS BIDDLE, who was blown up in the Randolph frigate, of 32 guns, near Barbadoes, in 1776, bravely fighting the British ship Yarmouth, of 64 guns. It is also Dedicated To the memory of Captain JAMES LAWRENCE, who fell in the engagement between the frigate Chesapeake, of 36 guns, and the British frigate Shannon, of 44 guns, in 1813. "Don't give up the ship!" It is also Dedicated To the memory of the OFFICERS, SEAMEN, and MARINES, who bravely fell in defence of the rights, liberties, and independence of their country, in the wars of 1776, 1804, and 1812. It is likewise Dedicated To the OFFICERS, SEAMEN, and MARINES of the United States Navy, and to the APPRENTICES of the Navy, who will yet, should there be occasion, stand as a wall of fire between their beloved country and her enemies. BY THE COMPILER. |