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POETRY

... still in their tomb. No wonder the spirit is breaking, Of those never daunted before, When their country looks on without speaking And sees them mown down by the score. Ah I is it that dazed by admiring, Their laurels their idols have won, They lose sight ...

Poetry

... Both high and low it elifoldeth ; Through it the souls of our fathers breathe, And the true heart fast it holdeth. Our hearts speak only our mother-tongue, They know no foreign translation 'Tis it alone, whether written or sung, Which from sleep can rouse ...

Poetry

... VAaBDELL. The ashes of the smouldering oak To men nio history tell, of how, in by-gone years, it grew, Luxuriant and well. They speak not of the summer breeze, rbat through its branches stray'd, When lowing herds and fleecy focks Reclined beneath its shade ...

ROYAL SOLILOQUY.—Dec. 14, 1862

... up a fount of tears, Drp-dropping, as theraia incessant falls. His mage on the walls alone is leftb And-though it seems to speak,,my listeninsr ear -Conveys no sound from lips of speech bereft, That spoke with accents sweet, and words so dear! Bis image ...

Poetry

... Both high and low it enfoldeth ; Through it the souls of our fathers breathe, And the true heart fast it holdeth. Our hearts speak only our mother-tongue, They know no foreign translation; 'Tis it alone, whether written or sung, Which from sleep can rouse ...

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... has passed beyond the veil, Before the Judge who metes to men their dues, Mcii's checks, through English-speaking laads. turn pale, Far as the speaking wires can bear the news- Blanched at this suldenl snapping of a life, That seemed of all our lives to ...

LITERARY GLEANINGS

... shall eat the bread of f affliction and drink the waters of sorrow, yet because the - Lord hath put it into my month I must speak it. ' There are other preachers, yea too many, which preach and s persuade thee otherwise, feeding thy folly and frail - affections ...

SCRAPS

... what a man k-an lift, as what he kan hang onto-that shows his aktual strength. Why is the telephone like a good little ?? speaks only when it is spoken to. Legal query-- Mloney makes money. Is it indictable for coining ? A rich uncle's heir, who waited ...

WIT AND HUMOUR

... not 'argue' on religious matt rs usually means that the other will not agree with him in all that he says. When a physician speaks of the ' speckled beauties' it is difficult to tell whether he is talking of trout or small- pox. There is a good deal of ...

Poetry

... And hig wife was left behind h~im forlorn, Bat his country helnever disbwned. It was treason against the Crown and State, To speak of the wrongs we endure, To'pity the victims of Saxon hate, And to plead the cause of the poor. It was treason to cry unite ...

Poetry

... And his wife was left behind him forlorn, Byi lhis country he never disowned. It was treason against the-crown and State, To speak of the wrongs we endure, To pity the victims of Saxon bate. And to'plead the cause of the poor. It w'as treason to cry unste ...

EXHIBITION BANQUET AT THE MANSION HOUSE

... i want of mleans that 'prevented our carrying out our designs. 'As toJ the inside' of 'the building, I shall bhe loth -to speak .when so many will be able 'to. judge. for themselves I inr a very few days. As to, the architecture and -ornanen- 'trtion ...