Moore continued.] That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, A Persian's Heaven is eas'ly made, Intercepted Letters. Letter vi. Who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master On the Death of Sheridan. of all. Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. Weep on; and, as thy sorrows flow, I'll taste the luxury of woe. Ibid. Anacreontic. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them. Preface to Corruption and Intolerance. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. 1785-1842. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sen. While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea. Ibid. REGINALD HEBER. 1783-1826. Failed the bright promise of your early day! Palestine. 1 No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung; Ibid. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid. By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows. Epiphany. First Sunday after Epiphany. No. ii. When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. Seventh Sunday after Trinity. Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower. At a Funeral. Thou art gone to the grave! but we will not de plore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb. 1 Altered in later editions to Ibid. No. ii. No workman steel, no ponderous axes rung, Silently as a dream the fabric rose, No sound of hammer or of saw was there. Cowper, The Task, Book v. Walk. The Winter Morning Heber continued.] Thus heavenly hope is all serene, But earthly hope, how bright soe'er, On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope. From Greenland's icy mountains, Roll down their golden sand. Missionary Hymn. Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile. I see them on their winding way, Ibid. Above their ranks the moonbeams play. Lines written to a March. JOSEPH STORY. 1779-1845. Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law. Motto of the Salem Register. Life of Story, Vol. i. p. 127. STEPHEN DECATUR. 1779-1820. Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. Toast given at Norfolk. April, 1816. DANIEL WEBSTER. 1782-1852. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.1 Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. Independence now and Independence forever.2 Ibid. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood. Second Speech on Foot's Resolution. Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. Ibid. We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many 1 Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall, in 1774 says, "I answered, that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country, was my unalterable determination.". - Adams's Works, Vol. iv. Live or die, sink or swim. — Peele, Edward I. 2 Mr. Webster says of Mr. Adams, "On the day of his death, hearing the noise of bells and cannon, he asked the occasion. On being reminded that it was 'Independent Day,' he replied, 'Independence forever.'". - Webster's Works, Vol. i. p. 150. temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit. Address on Laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.1 Speech on Hamilton, March 10, 1831. On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they (the Colonies) raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared, a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning-drum beat, 1 He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty. — Barry Yelverton (Lord Avonmore) on Blackstone. |