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• The Nation’s Prayer

  i.
  before Thy Throne we bow:
  O God, our shield be Thou …

  Crammond Kennedy

• The Brave at Home

  The Maid who binds her warrior’s sash
  With smile that well her pain dissembles,
  The while beneath her drooping lash …

  Thomas Buchanan Read

• The Place where Man should Die

  How little recks it where men lie,
  When once the moment’s past
  In which the dim and glazing eye …

  Michael Joseph Barry

• Hallowed Ground

  What ’s hallowed ground? Has earth a clod
  Its Maker meant not should be trod
  By man, the image of his God, …

  Thomas Campbell

• The Wolf and the Dog

  From the French by Elizur Wright
  A PROWLING wolf, whose shaggy skin
  (So strict the watch of dogs had been) …

  Jean de La Fontaine

• Rienzi to the Romans

  From “Rienzi”
  FRIENDS!
  I come not here to talk. Ye know too well …

  Mary Russell Mitford

• Fallen Greece

  From “The Giaour”
  CLIME of the unforgotten brave!
  Whose land, from plain to mountain-cave, …

  Lord Byron

• Greece Enslaved

  From “Childe Harold” Canto II.
  FAIR Greece! sad relic of departed worth!
  Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great! …

  Lord Byron

• Song of the Greek Poet

  From “Don Juan,” Canto III.
  THE ISLES of Greece, the isles of Greece!
  Where burning Sappho loved and sung, …

  Lord Byron

• Slavery

  From “The Timepiece”: “The Task,” Book II.
  O FOR a lodge in some vast wilderness,
  Some boundless contiguity of shade, …

  William Cowper

• Song of the Western Men

  [After the English Revolution of 1688, all bishops were compelled to swear allegiance to William and Mary. Seven of them, adherents of James II., refused and were imprisoned for treason,—the “Non-Jurors.” Trelawney of Cornwall was one.]
  A GOOD sword and a trusty hand,
  A merry heart and true, …

  Robert Stephen Hawker

• “The harp that once through Tara’s Halls”

  The Harp that once through Tara’s halls
  The soul of music shed,
  Now hangs as mute on Tara’s walls …

  Thomas Moore

• “The hills were made for freedom”

  When freedom from her home was driven,
  ’Mid vine-clad vales of Switzerland,
  She sought the glorious Alps of heaven, …

  William Goldsmith Brown

• Switzerland

  From “William Tell”
  ONCE Switzerland was free! With what a pride
  I used to walk these hills,—look up to heaven, …

  James Sheridan Knowles

• “Make way for Liberty”

  [Battle of Sempach, fourteenth century]
  “MAKE way for Liberty!”—he cried;
  Made way for Liberty, and died! …

  James Montgomery

• Poland

  From “The Pleasures of Hope,” Part I.
  O SACRED Truth! thy triumph ceased awhile,
  And Hope, thy sister, ceased with thee to smile, …

  Thomas Campbell

• The Marseillaise

  Anonymous translation from the French
  YE sons of freedom, wake to glory!
  Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! …

  Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

• A Court Lady

  Her hair was tawny with gold, her eyes with purple were dark,
  Her cheeks’ pale opal burnt with a red and restless spark.
  Never was lady of Milan nobler in name and in race; …

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England

  The Breaking waves dashed high
  On a stern and rock-bound coast,
  And the woods against a stormy sky …

  Felicia Hemans

• The Reformer

  All grim and soiled and brown and tan,
  I saw a Strong One, in his wrath,
  Smiting the godless shrines of man …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

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