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But the seamen

in the Navy of Charles II. were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.1 History of England. Vol. i. Ch. 2.

The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ibid. Vol. i. Ch. 3.

To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late,
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,

For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods?

Lays of Ancient Rome. Horatius, xxvii.

How well Horatius kept the bridge

In the brave days of old.

Ibid. lxx.

These be the Great Twin Brethren

To whom the Dorians pray.

The Battle of Lake Regillus.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

Lines written in August, 1847.

1 I have read their platform; but I see nothing in

"What is valuable is not

it both new and valuable. new, and what is new is not valuable."— Daniel Web

ster, Speech, March, 1848.

If I am Sophocles, I am not mad: and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles. — Vit. anon. Plumptre, p. lxiv.

2 Even bearbaiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian; the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. Hume, History of England, Vol. i. Ch. 62.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 1801-1872. There is a higher law than the Constitution. Speech, March 11, 1850.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

Speech, Oct. 25, 1858.

W. M. PRAED.

1802-1839.

Twelve years ago I was a boy,

A happy boy, at Drury's.

School and School-fellows.

Some lie beneath the churchyard stone,

And some before the speaker.

I remember, I remember

Ibid.

How my childhood fleeted by,

--

The mirth of its December,

And the warmth of its July.

I remember, I remember.

GEORGE P. MORRIS. 1802-1864.

Woodman, spare that tree!

Touch not a single bough!1

In youth it sheltered me,

And I'll protect it now.

Woodman, spare that Tree. (1830.)

1 O leave this barren spot to me!

Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.

Thomas Campbell, The Beech Tree's Petition (1802).

A song for our banner? The watchword recall

Which gave the Republic her station: "United we stand - divided we fall!"

It made and preserves us a nation!
The union of lakes — the union of lands —

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The union of States none can severThe union of hearts - the union of hands

And the Flag of our Union forever!

The Flag of our Union

Near the lake where drooped the willow,

Long time ago!

Near the Lake

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON.
1805-1873.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword.

Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Take away the sword;

States can be saved without it.

Ibid.

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As-fail.

Ibid.

Frank, haughty, rash, the Rupert of debate.

The New Timon. Parti. St. 6.

Alone! that worn-out word,

So idly spoken, and so coldly heard ;

Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste,knells in that word-ALONE! Ibid. Part ii. 7.

RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES.

But on and up, where Nature's heart

Beats strong amid the hills.

Tragedy of the Lac de Gaube. St. 2.

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares. The Men of Old.

A man's best things are nearest him,

Lie close about his feet.

The beating of my own heart

Was all the sound I heard.

Ibid.

I wandered by the Brookside.

SAMUEL LOVER.

1797-1868.

Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye.

Rory O'More. For drames always go by conthraries, my dear.1

Ibid.

"Then here goes another," says he, "to make

sure,

For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory

O'More.

Sure the shovel and tongs

To each other belongs.

Ibid.

Widow Machree.

1 Ground not upon dreams, you know they are ever contrary. Middleton, The Family of Love, iv. 3.

Poe.- Willis.- Taylor. 567

EDGAR A. POE.

1811-1849.

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my

chamber door,

Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

The Raven.

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy

form from off my door!

Quoth the Raven: "Nevermore."

To the glory that was Greece

Ibid.

And the grandeur that was Rome.

To Helen.

NATHANIEL P. WILLIS.

1817-1867.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.1

Necessity for a Promenade Drive.

HENRY TAYLOR.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Philip Van Artevelde. Parti. Act. i. Sc. 5.

An unreflected light did never yet

Dazzle the vision feminine.

Ibid.

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them.
Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out,
There wisdom will not enter, nor true power,
Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

1 See Note, ante, P 549.

Ibid.

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