"One or the other," Fast side by side, "One or the other MUST go Which on the ocean Gallant shall ride ? Which shall be buried below? Englishmen! ours It is to proclaim; Protestants! ours is the foe; Victors-and ours Alone is the fame Conquered-and ours is the woe. Oh! by the spirits, Loving in bliss The vessel, they guarded of yore; Rouse ye, for shame! At a moment like this, Rouse! or be slaves evermore! Tell the Usurper Doubt you have none, "Down to the deep HE must go ;— Or if you fall, The life-blood of all Must crimson the waters below!" BRITAIN'S BIBLE. BRITAIN'S BIBLE! Britain's Bible! Source of Britain's envied name; Sure it is a daring libel Ought beside to give the fame :Where's the Isle, on sea or ocean, Where, upon the world's wide sod. Glows the land with like devotion To her Bible and her GOD? Britain's Bible long hath taught her Whence the springs of honour rise; Streams from such a source have brought her Lofty in the nations' eyes. She's a queen!—the kingdoms own her Mistress of their every sea, And no tyrant can dethrone her From her high supremacy. Say, then, Britons !-say, shall strangers, And her sons be slow avengers, Shall they suffer Romish fetters Say, will British Freemen stand it, Shall these Romish Bishops brand it, Nay! by all that Book enjoins us, We'll resist them to their teeth; And the post, our God assigns us, Shall be guarded to the death. England shall be free for ever, England's Bible keep her free, Till there's not a shred to sever From her throne of liberty: Closed, but when her hist'ry closes, Be that Bible, whence it came; When her laurell'd name reposes In the record-book of Fame! THE MEN OF MARY'S DAYS. A SUGGESTION FOR THE "MARTYRS' MEMORIAL.” BRING a tablet, fair and white, Heroes of the martyr'd slain. Men who burned, and bled, and diedMighty men of Mary's days! Aged ROGERS!-Write him down, |