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NATIONAL ANTHEM.

BY RALPH WALDO E.

SOURCE immaterial of material naught,

Focus of light infinitesimal,

Sum of all things by sleepless Nature wrought, Of which abnormal man is decimal.

Refract, in prism immortal, from thy stars
To the stars blent incipient on our flag,
To beam translucent, neutrifying death,
And raise to immortality "the rag."

This "anthem" was greatly praised by a celebrated German scholar, but the committee will feel obliged to reject it on account of its too childish simplicity.

Here we have a

NATIONAL ANTHEM.

BY WILLIAM CULLEN B.

THE sun sinks softly to his evening post,
The sun swells grandly to his morning crown;
Yet not a star our flag of heaven has lost,

And not a sunset stripe with him goes down.

So thrones may fall; and from the dust of those New thrones may rise, to totter like the last; But still our country's nobler planet glows,

While the eternal stars of Heaven are fast.

Upon finding that this does not go well to the air of "Yankee Doodle," the committee feel justified in declining it; being furthermore prejudiced against it by a suspicion that the poet has crowded an advertisement of a paper which he edits into the first line. Next we quote from a

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NATIONAL ANTHEM.

BY N. P. W.

ONE hue of our flag is taken
From the cheeks of my blushing pet,
And its stars beat time and sparkle
Like the studs on her chemisette.

Its blue is the ocean shadow

That hides in her dreamy eyes, And it conquers all men, like her, And still for a Union flies.

Several members of the committee find that this "anthem has too much of the Anacreon spice to suit them. We next peruse a

NATIONAL ANTHEM.

BY THOMAS BAILEY A.

THE little brown squirrel hops in the corn,
The cricket quaintly sings;
The emerald pigeon nods his head,

And the shad in the river springs;
The dainty sunflower hangs its head
On the shore of the summer sea;
And better far that I were dead,

If Maud did not love me.

I love the squirrel that hops in the corn,
And the cricket that quaintly sings;
And the emerald pigeon that nods his head,
And the shad that gayly springs.

I love the dainty sunflower, too,
And Maud with her snowy breast;

I love them all; but I love - I love -
I love my country best.

This is certainly very beautiful, and sounds somewhat like Tennyson. Though it may be rejected by the committee, it can never lose its value as a piece of excellent reading for children. It is calculated to fill the youthful mind with patriotism and natural history, beside touching the youthful heart with an emotion palpitat ing for all.

We close the list with the following:

NATIONAL ANTHEM.

BY R. H. STOD,

BEHOLD the flag! Is it not a flag?
Deny it, man, if you dare!
And midway spread 'twixt earth and sky
It hangs like a written prayer.

Would impious hand of foe disturb

Its memories' holy spell,

And blight it with a dew of blood?

Ha, tr-r-aitor! . . . . It is well.

R. H. NEWELL. (ORPHEUS C. KERR.)

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Samuel Lover 7
Wordsworth 211

All in our marriage garden
G. Massey
All in the Downs the fleet was moored John Gay
"All quiet along the Potomac," they say

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Leigh Hunt 582

Mrs. E. L. Beers 381

Peter Pindar 739

All that is like a dream

R. Buchanan 247

All the world's a stage

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All thoughts, all passions, all delights
Aloft upon an old basaltic crag

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Although I enter not
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A man in many a country town we know G. Colman
Amazing, beauteous change!
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A diagnosis of our history proves
R.H. Newell 774
Adieu, adieu, my native shore
Byron
Adieu, adieu! our dream of love
A district school, not far away
Ae fond kiss and then we sover.
Afar in the desert I love to ride
Thos. Pringle 231
A fellow in a market-town
Peter Pindar 740
A fiend once met a humble man Rev. Mr. Maclellan 418
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by Wordsworth 577
A footstep struck her ear
Scott
Again the violet of our early days Eben. Elliott 308 And are ye sure the news is true?
A generous friendship no cold medium knows
And hast thou sought thy heavenly home
And is the swallow gone?

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A girl, who has so many wi!ful ways
A good that never satisfies the mind
Ah, Chloris, could I now but sit.

Ah! do not wanton with those eyes
Ah, how sweet it is to love!

Ah! little they know of true happiness
Ah! my heart is weary waiting.

Ah, my sweet sweeting

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A moment, then, Lord Marmion stayed
Among the beautiful pictures.
Among thy fancies tell me this
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And on her lover's arm she leant

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Ah, then how sweetly closed those crowded days!

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And there two runners did the sign abide
And thou hast walked about

Pope
Tennyson

Wm. Morris

Horace Smith 542

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Sir T. Wyatt 150
Leigh Hunt
too long!

O. W. Holmes 373
Cowper

A nightingale, that all day long.
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky

R. W. Emerson 319
Geo. Crabbe 570
Byron
533

A noble peasant, Isaac Ashford, died.
Arches on arches! as it were that Rome

Anonymous 487
W. C. Bryant 84
Anonymous 733 Art thou a thing of mortal birth
Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?
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T. Moore
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Alas! how light a cause may move
Alas, that moon should ever beam
Alas! they had been friends in youth
Alas! what pity 't is that regularity
Alice was a chieftain's daughter.
A little in the doorway sitting.
A little onward lend thy guiding hand
All day long the storm of battle
All grim and soiled and brown with tan Whittier
All hail! thou noble land
W. Allston
All hail to the ruins, the rocks, and the shores!
Montgomery 471

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T. Dekker

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C. D. Shanly 79

T. Moore Wordsworth

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T. Burbidge
Milton 235 A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers
Anonymous 378

C. E. Norton 383

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Ca' the yowes to the knowes

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Bachelor's hall, what a comical place it is! Anon. 729
Back in the years when Phlagstaff, the Dane Newell 774 Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! G. A. Stevens 482
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight

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Celia and I the other day

Cheeks as soft as July peaches
Child of the later days!
Children of God, who, faint and slow
Christmas is here

Matt. Prior 85
W. C. Bennett 4
Anonymous 543
Bowdler

Clang, clang! the massive anvils ring
Clasp me a little longer on the brink
Clear the brown path to meet his coulter's gleam

Clime of the unforgotten brave!
Close his eyes; his work is done!
Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise
Come, all ye jolly shepherds
Come back, come back together.
Come, brother, turn with me from

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Anonymous

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Campbell

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622 Come! fill a fresh bumper
Come from my first, ay come !
114 Come here, come here, and dwell
747 Come, hoist the sail, the fast let go !
Come in the evening, or come in the

T. Hood.
A. De Vere 100
Dr. J. Leyden 299.
Thos. Warton 325
Dr. S. Butler 737
Shelley
Longfellow
Young
H. Bonar

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

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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
Come on, sir; here's the place

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Come, rest in this bosom

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Thos. Davis 72
Tennyson 69

W. C. Bryant 361
Anonymous 496

C. Mar'owe 73
Shakespeare 655
Shakespeare 326
Chas. Wes.ey 270
T. Moore

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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
Whittier
Beaumont and Fletcher 575
E. Arnold 361 Come Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace
Shakespeare 224

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Dark is the night, and fitful and drearily
Rev. W. R. Duryea 134
Darkness is thinning (Translation of J. M. Neale)
St. Gregory the Great 258
Daughter of God! that sitt'st on high Wm. Tennent 373
Day dawned; within a curtained room Barry Cornwall 195
Day hath put on his jacket
O.W. Holmes 739
Day in melting purple dying
Day of wrath, that day of burning

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A. Ramsay
Far to the right where Apennine ascends Goldsmith
Father of all! in every age
Pope
Father! thy wonders do not singly stand Jones Very
Fear no more the heat o' the sun Shakespeare 190
Fear not, O little flock! the foe (Transl.) M. Altenburg 396
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
E. B. Browning 111

Trans by Abr. Coles, M. D. 262
Day set on Norham's castled steep Scott
525
Day stars! that ope your frownless eyes Horace Smith 363 | Flowers are fresh, and bushes green (Translation of
Dead! one of them shot by the sea in the east

Dear Chloe, while the busy crowd
Deep in the wave is a coral grove
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise
Did you hear of the Widow Malone,

E. B. Browning 192
N. Cotton
135
J.G. Percival 476
Congreve 616

Ohone!

Did your letters pierce the queen
Die down, O dismal day, and let me live
Dip down upon the northern shore
Deserted by the waning moon

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Chas. Lever 105
Shakespeare 233
For England when with favoring gale
David Gray 304 For one long term, or ere her trial came Canning
Tennyson 304 For Reform we feels too lazy
Punch
Thos. Dibdin 479
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? C. G. Rossetti 261
Do we indeed desire the dead
Tennyson 183
Down deep in a hollow, so damp Mrs. R. S. Nichols 672
Down in yon garden sweet and gay Anonymous 202
Down the dimpled greensward dancing Geo. Darley
Dow's Flat. That 's its name
F. B. Harte
Do you ask what the birds say? Coleridge
Drink to me only with thine eyes (Translation of
Ben Jonson).
Philostratus 608
P. Fletcher 258
Burns
106
Anonymous

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