• It was a Sergeant old and gray,
      Well singed and bronzed from siege and pillage,
    Went tramping in an army’s wake
      Along the turnpike of the village.

    For days and nights the winding host
      Had through the little place been marching,
    And ever loud the rustics cheered,
      Till every throat was hoarse and parching.

    The Squire and...

  • It was a Sergeant old and gray,
      Well singed and bronzed from siege and pillage,
    Went tramping in an army’s wake
      Along the turnpike of the village.

    For days and nights the winding host
      Had through the little place been marching,
    And ever loud the rustics cheered,
      Till every throat was hoarse and parching.

    The Squire and...

  • National Anthem
    By H. W. L——, of Cambridge
    BACK in the years when Phlagstaff, the Dane, was monarch
      Over the sea-ribbed land of the fleet-footed Norsemen,
    Once there went forth young Ursa to gaze at the heavens,—
      Ursa, the noblest of all Vikings and horsemen.

    Musing he sat in his stirrups and viewed the horizon,
      Where the Aurora...