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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 palpitating 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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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 309
Longfellow
Young

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H. Bonar

181

R. H. Dana 267
O. W. Holmes 733
W. M. Praed 708

Barry Cornwall 668
R. H. Dana 519
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Thos. Davis 72 Tennyson 69 W. C. Bryant 361 Anonymous 496

C. Mar'owe 73
Shakespeare 655
Shakespeare 326

T. Moore

Come into the garden, Maud.
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.
Come, O thou Traveller unknown. Chas. Wes.ey 270
Come, rest in this bosom
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

Anonymous 266 James Hogg 343 Birds, the free tenants of land, air, and ocean

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Sir Ph. Sidney 575

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W. L. Bowles 326
Shakespeare 656
Tennyson
Punch

Fair ship that from the Italian shore
Fair stood the wind for France

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161 717

False diamond set in flint !

M. Drayton 386 W. C. Bryant 97

False world, thou ly'st; thou canst not lend

Horace Twiss 34

Fare thee well! and if forever
Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness!

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F. Quarles 612
Byron

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Milton
John Lyly

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Shakespeare 237

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Count not the hours while their silent wings

Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear Shakespeare
Cromwell, our chief of men

Cupid and my Campaspe played

Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow Pope
Daddy Neptune, one day, to Freedom did say

Dark as the clouds of even.

238

Thos. Dibdin 443

farewell to thee, Araby's daughter!

65 Farewell, 596 Farewell! if ever fondest prayer Farewell, life! my senses swim G. H. Boker 449 Dark is the night, and fitful and drearily Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing Rev. W. R. Duryea 134 Farewell, thou busy world, and may . Darkness is thinning (Translation of J. M. Neale) Shakespeare 150 C. Cotton Farewell to Lochaber, and farewell my Jean 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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Far to the right where Apennine ascends Goldsmith
Father of all! in every age
A. Ramsay
Father! thy wonders do not singly stand Jones Very
Pope
Fear no more the heat o' the sun
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
Fear not, O little flock! the foe (Transl.) M. Altenburg 346
Shakespeare 190
Flowers are fresh, and bushes green (Translation of
E. B. Browning 111
Lord Strangford).
Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes
Camoens
N. Cotton
J.G. Percival 476 Flung to the heedless winds (Translation of W. J.
Burns
Ohone!
Congreve 616
Fox).
"Fly to the desert, fly with me
. Martin Luther 264
For aught that ever I could read
For one long term, or ere her trial came Canning
For England when with favoring gale C. Dibdin
For Reform we feels too lazy
Punch

E. B. Browning 192

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

135

Chas. Lever 105
David Gray 304
Shakespeare 233
Tennyson 304
Thos. Dibdin 479

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? C. G. Rossetti 261
Do we indeed desire the dead
Down deep in a hollow, so damp Mrs. R. S. Nichols 672
Tennyson 183
Down in yon garden sweet and gay Anonymous 202

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Down the dimpled greensward dancing Geo. Darley
Dow's Flat. That 's its name.
Do you ask what the birds say?
F. B. Harte
Coleridge
Drink to me only with thine eyes (Translation of
Philostratus
P. Fletcher
Burns
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony
From the desert I come to thee.
From Sterling Castle we had seen.

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From the recesses of a lowly spirit
Full fathom five

93

Ben Jonson).

Drop, drop, slow tears

Duncan Gray cam' here to woo
Early on a sunny morning

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Earth has not anything to show more fair Wordsworth 528
Earth, of man the bounteous mother
E'en such is time; which takes on trust

Gamarra is a dainty steed
Full knee deep lies the winter snow

Miss Mitford 436
Watts
Dryden
Whittier

294

316

588

Wordsworth 330

Bayard Taylor 71

7. Bowring 278 Shakespeare 656. Tennyson

619

Barry Cornwall 339

John Sterling 420

Gather ye rosebuds as ye may
Gay, guiltless pair
Sir W. Raleigh 613 Genteel in personage

R. Herrick

617

C. Sprague

347

H. Fielding

60

England, with all thy faults, I love thee still

Gentlefolks, in my time, I've made many a rhyme

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C Dibdin

489

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Thomson
Doddridge

599

279

Ethereal minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky! Wordsworth
Even is come; and from the dark Park, hark

344

Gently hast thou told thy message
Gin a body meet a body.
Gille machree, sit down by me

Milton

232

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Burns

"Git oot wid the', Jwohnny"

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T. Hood
John Keats
R. W. Emerson 614
Montgomery 475
T.W. Parsons 73
T. Moore 519
Dr. R. Hughes 59

Give me more love or more disdain
Give me my scallop-shell of quiet
Give me three grains of corn, mother
Give place, ye lovers

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Anonymous

T. Carew

79 106

64

Miss Edwards 458

Sir W. Raleigh 259

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Lord Surrey 41
Bishop Ken

Glory to thee, my God, this night
"God bless the man who first invented sleep!"

294

F. G. Saxe 742

E. B. Browning 62 God makes sech nights, all white an' still

R. Herrick
Anonymous

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Byron

369

J. R. Lowell 102

Mary Howitt 370

46 God might have bade the earth bring forth 463

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