Ex. 75.

With Shakspeare's deep and wondrous verse,
And Milton's loftier mind,

With Alfred's laws, and Newton's lore,
To cheer and bless mankind.

Mark, as it spreads, how deserts bloom,
And error flies away,

As vanishes the mist of night
Before the star of day!

But grand as are the victories

Whose monuments we see,

These are but as the dawn which speaks
Of noontide yet to be.

Take heed, then, heirs of Saxon fame!
Take heed! nor once disgrace,
With deadly pen or spoiling sword,
Our noble tongue and race.
Go forth prepared in every clime
To love and help each other,
And judge that they who counsel strife
Would bid you smite-a brother.
Go forth, and jointly speed the time,
By good men prayed for long,

When Christian states, grown just and wise,
Will scorn revenge and wrong—

When Earth's oppressed and savage tribes

Shall cease to pine or roam,

All taught to prize these English words

Faith, Freedom, Heaven, and Home!—J. G. Lyon,

England.

Not yet enslaved, not wholly vile,
O Albion! O my mother isle!
Thy valleys, fair as Eden's bowers,
Glitter green with sunny showers;
Thy grassy uplands' gentle swells
Echo to the bleat of flocks-
Those grassy hills, those glittering dells
Proudly ramparted with rocks-
And Ocean, 'mid his uproar wild,
Speaks safely to his island-child!
Hence, for many a fearless age
Has social Quiet loved thy shore
Nor ever proud invader's rage

Or sacked thy towers, or stained thy fields with gore.

Coleridge.

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