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The downright epicure placed heaven in sense,
And scorned pretence;

While others, slipt into a wide excess,
Said little less;

The weaker sort, slight, trivial wares enslave,
Who think them brave,

And poor, despised truth sat counting by
Their victory.

Yet some, who all this while did weep and sing,
And sing and weep, soared up into the ring;
But most would use no wing.

"O fools," said I, "thus to prefer dark night
Before true light!

To live in grots and caves, and hate the day
Because it shows the way,-

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Once Switzerland was free! O, with what pride
I used to walk these hills, look up to heaven,
And bless God that it was so! It was free!
From end to end, from cliff to lake, 't was free!
Free as our torrents are, that leap our rocks,
And plough our valleys without asking leave;
Or as our peaks, that wear their caps of snow
In very presence of the regal sun!
How happy was I in it then! I loved
Its very storms! Ay, often have I sat

And while gust followed gust more furiously,
As if 't would sweep me o'er the horrid brink,
And I have thought of other lands, whose storms
Are summer-flaws to those of mine, and just
Have wished me there, - the thought that mine was
free

Has checked that wish; and I have raised my head,
And cried, in thraldom, to that furious wind,
"Blow on!-This is the land of liberty!"

JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES.

THE sword is but a hideous flash in the darkness-right is an eternal ray.

MY HEART 'S IN THE HIGHLANDS.
I.

Y heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not
here;

My heart's in the Highlands a chasing the
deer;

Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe-
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birthplace of valor, the country of worth;

II.

Farewell to the mountains high covered with
snow;

Farewell to the straths and green valleys below:
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods;
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not
here,

My heart's in the Highlands a chasing the deer;

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