David Humphreys - Sonnet I lyrics

Adieu! thou Yale! where youthful poets dwell, No more I linger by thy cla**ic stream. Inglorious ease and sportive songs farewell! Thou startling clarion! break the sleeper's dream! And sing, ye bards! the war-inspiring theme. Heard ye the din of battle? clang of arms? Saw ye the steel 'mid starry banners beam? Quick throbs my breast at war's untried alarms, Unknown pulsations stirr'd by glory's charms. While dear Columbia calls, no danger awes, Though certain d**h to threaten'd chains be join'd. Though fails this flesh devote to freedom's cause, Can d**h subdue th' unconquerable mind? Or adamantine chains ethereal substance bind?