Crossword-Solution: CLEAV 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Hur skipt about, hur leapt about, And flang amang them a’, man; The English blades got broken beads, Their crowns were cleav’d in twa then.

This, when the ROYALISTS perceiv'd, (Who to their faith as firmly cleav'd, And own'd the right they had paid down 165 So dearly for, the Church and Crown,) Th' united constanter, and sided The more, the more their foes divided.

Ten days and sev'n, he, navigating, cleav'd The brine, and on the eighteenth day, at length, The shadowy mountains of Phæacia's land Descried, where nearest to his course it lay Like a broad buckler on the waves afloat.

Emblem of all that can endure, or dare, Art thou, bold eagle, in thy hardihood! Emblem of Freedom, when thou cleav'st the air-- Emblem of Tyranny, when bathed in blood! Thou wert the genius of Rome's sanguine wars-- Heroes have fought and freely bled for thee; And here, above our glorious "stripes and stars," We hail thy signal wings of LIBERTY! The poet sees in thee a type sublime Of his far-reaching, high-aspiring Art! His fancy seeks with thee each starry clime, And thou art on the signet of his heart.

Not with more fury _Norris_ cleav'd the main, To pour his thund'ring arms on guilty _Spain_; Nor with more haste brave _Haddock_ bent his course To guard _Minorca_ from _Iberian_ force,-- Than thou, intrepid hero, urg'd thy way O'er roads and sands, impatient for the fray.