The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.1 The Soldier's Dream. In life's morning march, when my bosom was young. Ibid. But sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. Ibid. A stoic of the woods, a man without a tear. Gertrude. Part i. St. 23. O Love! in such a wilderness as this. Ibid. Part iii. St. 1. The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below! Ibid. Part iii. St. 5. Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance! Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree, It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free. Song of the Greeks. Drink ye to her that each loves best, And if you nurse a flame That 's told but to her mutual breast, We will not ask her name. Drink ye to her. To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. Hallowed Ground. 1 The starres, bright centinels of the skies. Habington, Castara, Dialogue between Night and Araphil. JONATHAN M. SEWALL. 1748-1808. No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, ROBERT EMMET. 1780-1803. Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. Speech on his Trial and Conviction for High Treason, (THOMAS) LORD DENMAN. 1779-1854. A delusion, a mockery, and a snare. O'Connell v. The Queen, 11 Clark and Finnelly. The mere repetition of the Cantilena of lawyers cannot make it law, unless it can be traced to some competent authority; and, if it be irreconcilable, to some clear legal principle. Ibid. I Written for the Bow Street Theatre, Portsmouth, N. H. WALTER SCOTT. 1771-1832. Such is the custom of Branksome-Hall. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto i. St. vii. O fading honours of the dead! Canto ii. St. 1. Canto ii. St. 10. Canto ii. St. 12. I was not always a man of woe. Canto ii. St. 22. In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; grove, Canto iii. St. 1. Her blue eyes sought the west afar, Canto iii. St. 24. Canto iv. St. 1. Along thy wild and willowed shore. Ne'er Was flattery lost on Poet's ear: A simple race! they waste their toil For the vajn tribute of a smile. Canto iv. St. 35. Call it not vain ;- they do not err The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto v. St. 1. True love's the gift which God has given Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. Canto v. St. 13. Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, This is my own, my native land! From wandering on a foreign strand? To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto vi. St. 1. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood. Canto vi. St. 2. Profaned the God-given strength, and marred the lofty line. Marmion. Introduc. to Canto 1. Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth. Introduc. to Canto ii. When, musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone. "T is an old tale and often told ; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betrayed for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me. In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying. Where's the coward that would To fight for such a land? Ibid. Canto ii. St. 27. Canto iii. St. 10. not dare Canto iv. St. 30. Lightly from fair to fair he flew, |