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And whitening and brightening,

And quivering and shivering,

And hurrying and skurrying,

And thundering and floundering;

Dividing and gliding and sliding,
And falling and brawling and sprawling,
And driving and riving and striving,

And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling,
And sounding and bounding and rounding,
And bubbling and troubling and doubling,
And grumbling and rumbling and tumbling,"
And clattering and battering and shattering ;

Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting,
Delaying and straying and playing and spraying,
Advancing and prancing and glancing and dan-
cing,

Recoiling, turmoiling and toiling and boiling,
And gleaming and streaming and steaming and
beaming,

And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing,

And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping,

Wildly he started, - for there in the heavens be fore him

Fluttered and flew the original star-spangled

banner.

Two objections are in the way of the acceptance of this anther by the committee: in the first place, it is not an anthem at all; sec ondly, it is a gross plagiarism from an old Sclavonic war-song of the primeval ages.

Next we quote from a

NATIONAL ANTHEM.

BY THE HON. EDWARD E, OF BOSTON.

PONDEROUS projectiles, hurled by heavy hands,
Fell on our Liberty's poor infant head,
Ere she a stadium had well advanced

On the great path that to her greatness led;
Her temple's propylon was shatter-ed ;
Yet, thanks to saving Grace and Washington,
Her incubus was from her bosom hurled ;

And, rising like a cloud-dispelling sun,
She took the oil with which her hair was curled
To
grease the "hub" round which revolves the
world.

This fine production is rather heavy for an "anthem," an-1 contains too much of Boston to be considered strictly national. To set such an anthem" to music would require a Wagner; and even wee? II

And curling and whirling and purling and really accommodated to a tune, it could only be whistled by the

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We now come to a

NATIONAL ANTHEM.

BY JOHN GREENLEAF W.
My native land, thy Puritanic stock
Still finds its roots firm bound in Plymouth Rock ;
And all thy sons unite in one grand wish,
To keep the virtues of Preserv-ed Fish.

Preserv-ed Fish, the Deacon stern and true,
Told our New England what her sons should do ;
And, should they swerve from loyalty and right,
Then the whole land were lost indeed in night.

The sectional bias of this "anthem "renders it unsuitable for use
in that small margin of the world situated outside of New England.
Hence the above must be rejected.
Here we have a very curious

NATIONAL ANTHEM.

BY DR. OLIVER WENDELL H

A DIAGNOSIS of our history proves
Our native land a land its native loves;
Its birth a deed obstetric without peer,
Its growth a source of wonder far and near.

To love it more, behold how foreign shores Sink into nothingness beside its stores. Hyde Park at best-though counted ultra grandMusing he sat in his stirrups and viewed the The "Boston Common" of Victoria's land — horizon,

The committee must not be blamed for rejecting the above after Where the Aurora lapt stars in a north-polar reading thus far, for such an "anthem" could only be sung by z college of surgeons or a Beacon Street tea-party. Turn we now to a

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A thousand miles from land are we Barry Cornwall 354

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Busy, curious, thirsty fly.

But all our praises why should lords engross?

R. W. Emerson 354
V. Bourne

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But Enoch yearned to see her face again Tennyson
But Fortune, like some others of her sex Halleck
But happy they! the happiest of their kind

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Ave Maria! o'er the earth and sea
A violet in her lovely hair

Beattie
Pope
Byron
Chas. Swain
A voice from stately Babylon
Anonymous 210
Awake! the starry midnight hour Barry Cornwall 68
A wanderer, Wilson, from my native land T. Hood 719
Away! away! through the sightless air G. W. Cutter 654
A weary weed, tossed to and fro.
C. G. Fenner 474
A well there is in the West country Southey
A wet sheet and a flowing sea
A wind came up out of the sea
Ay, but I know

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But now our quacks are gamesters
But where to find that happiest spot below

But who the melodies of morn can tell? Beattie
"But why do vou go?" said the lady E. B. Browning 131
By the wayside, on a mossy stone
Calm is the morn without a sound

Calm on the bosom of thy God

Ralph Hoyt 229
Tennyson 182
Mrs. Hemans 177

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B. Barton 459
Wordsworth 570
R. H. Newell 775
R. W. Emerson 625

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Come from my first, ay come !
Come here, come here, and dwell
Come, hoist the sail, the fast let go !
Come in the evening, or come in the

Behold the young, the rosy Spring (Translation of

Thomas Moore)

Behold this ruin! 'T was a skull

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms

747
A. De Vere 109
Dr. J. Leyden 299

Ben Battle was a soldier bold
Bending between me and the taper
Beneath a shivering canopy reclined
Beneath this stony roof reclined
Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher
Best and brightest, come away
Between the dark and the daylight
Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer
Beyond the smiling and the weeping
Beyond these chilling winds and gloomy skies

Bird of the wilderness

Thos. Warton 325
Dr. S. Butler 737
Shelley
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James Hogg

L. E. Landon 9
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R. H. Dana 267

O. W. Holmes 733

W. M. Praed 708
Barry Cornwall 668
R. H. Dana
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Come, let us plant the apple-tree
Come, listen to me, you gallants so free
Come live with me, and be my love
Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song

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Come on, sir; here 's the place

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Come, O thou Traveller unknown.
Come, rest in this bosom

Birds, the free tenants of land, air, and ocean

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Come, see the Dolphin's anchor forged S. Ferguson 424
Come, shall we go and kill us venison? Shakespeare 597
Montgomery 351 Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
Beaumont and Fletcher 575
361 Come Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace

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