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A song for our banner? The watchword recall

Which gave the Republic her station: "United we stand - divided we fall!"

It made and preserves us a nation!
The union of lakes the union of lands-
The union of States none can sever-
The union of hearts - the union of hands-
And the Flag of our Union forever!

The Flag of our Union.

Near the lake where drooped the willow,

Long time ago!

Near the Lake.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON.
1805 - 1873.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword.

Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Take away the sword;

States can be saved without it.

Ibid.

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word. As-fail.

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Ibid.

Frank, haughty, rash, the Rupert of debate.

The New Timon. Parti. St. 6.

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So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;

Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste,knells in that word -ALONE! Ibid. Part ii. 7.

RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES.

But on and up, where Nature's heart

Beats strong amid the hills.

Tragedy of the Lac de Gaube. St. 2.

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares. The Men of Old.

A man's best things are nearest him,

Lie close about his feet.

Ibid.

The beating of my own heart

Was all the sound I heard.

I wandered by the Brookside.

SAMUEL LOVER.

1797-1868.

Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye.

Rory O'More. For drames always go by conthraries, my dear.1

Ibid.

"Then here goes another," says he, “to make

sure,

For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory

O'More.

Sure the shovel and tongs

To each other belongs.

Ibid.

Widow Machree.

1 Ground not upon dreams, you know they are ever

contrary. Middleton, The Family of Love, iv. 3.

Poe.- Willis.- Taylor.

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EDGAR A. POE.

1811-1849.

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my

chamber door,

Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

The Raven.

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!

Quoth the Raven: "Nevermore."

Ibid.

NATHANIEL P. WILLIS. 1817-1867.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

Necessity for a Promenade Drive.

HENRY TAYLOR.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Philip Van Artevelde. Parti. Act i. Sc. 5.

An unreflected light did never yet

Dazzle the vision feminine.

Ibid.

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
Eternity mourns that. T is an ill cure
For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them.
Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out,
There wisdom will not enter, nor true power,
Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

Ibid.

We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up As chance will have it, on the rock or sand: For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore. Philip Van Artevelde. Parti. Acti. Sc. 5.

Such souls,

Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away

Wakens the slumbering ages.

Act i. Sc. 7.

CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH.

Thought is deeper than all speech;
Feeling deeper than all thought;

Souls to souls can never teach
What unto themselves was taught.

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PHILIP JAMES BAILEY.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;1

In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most

lives

Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Festus.

Life 's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things-God.

Ibid.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them and the truth of truths is love. Ibid.

LYDIA MARIA CHILD.

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm, in this youthful land, than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

Supposititious Speech of James Otis. From The
Rebels, Ch. iv.

1 A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler

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