中 THE SUN sinks softly to his evening post, So thrones may fall; and from the dust of those Upon finding that this does not go well to the air of "Yankee Doodle," the committee feel justified in declining it; being furthermore prejudiced against it by a suspicion that the poet has crowded an advertisement of a paper which he edits into the first line. Next we quote from a BY N. P. W-. ONE hue of our flag is taken From the cheeks of my blushing pet, And its stars beat time and sparkle Its blue is the ocean shadow That hides in her dreamy eyes, Several members of the conmmittee find that this "anthem has too much of the Anacreon spice to suit them. We next peruse a NATIONAL ANTHEM. BY THOMAS BAILEY A-. THE little brown squirrel hops in the corn, And better far that I were dead, If Maud did not love me. I love the squirrel that hops in the corn, And Maud with her snowy breast; This is certainly very beautiful, and sounds somewhat like Tennyson. Though it may be rejected by the committee, it can never lose its value as a piece of excellent reading for children. It is calculated to fill the youthful mind with patriotism and natural history, beside touching the youthful heart with an emotion palpitating for all. We close the list with the following: NATIONAL ANTHEM. BY R. H. STOD. BEHOLD the flag! Is it not a flag? And midway spread 'twixt earth and sky Would impious hand of foe disturb And blight it with a dew of blood? R. H. NEWELL. (ORPHEUS C. KERR.) T. Moore 67 Montgomery 471 A song to the oak, the brave old oak H. F. Chorley 359 T. Dekker 419 中 Come then, my friend! my genius! come along 779 Pope David Gray 142 Shakespeare 656 Tennyson 161 Fair ship that from the Italian shore Tennyson 182 M. Drayton 386 W.C. Bryant 97 Punch 717 False world, thou ly'st; thou canst not lend wings F. Quarles 612 Horace Twiss 34 Fare thee well! and if forever Byron 149 Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear Shakespeare 238 Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness! Milton 710 Shakespeare 237 Cupid and my Campaspe played John Lyly 65 Farewell, - farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow Pope 596 T. Moore 197 Daddy Neptune, one day, to Freedom did say Thos. Dibdin 443 Farewell! if ever fondest prayer Byron 149 T. Hood 239 Dark as the clouds of even. G. H. Boker 449 Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing Dark is the night, and fitful and drearily Shakespeare 150 Rev. W. R. Duryea 134 Farewell, thou busy world, and may C. Cotton 572 Farewell to Lochaber, and farewell my Jean A. Ramsay 148 530 Darkness is thinning (Translation of J. M. Neale) Daughter of God! that sitt'st on high Wm. Tennent 373 Day in melting purple dying Day of wrath, that day of burning O.W. Holmes 739 Maria Brooks 156 Trans by Abr. Coles, M. D. 262 Scott 525 Day set on Norham's castled steep E. B. Browning 192 Chas. Lever 105 Shakespeare 233 Die down, O dismal day, and let me live David Gray Dip down upon the northern shore Deserted by the waning moon Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Do we indeed desire the dead 304 Tennyson 304 C. G. Rossetti 261 Thos. Dibdin 479 Tennyson 183 Down deep in a hollow, so damp Mrs. R. S. Nichols 672 Anonymous 202 Down the dimpled greensward dancing Geo. Darley Dow's Flat. That's its name F. B. Harte 764 Do you ask what the birds say? Drink to me only with thine eyes (Translation of 45 Ben Jonson). Philostratus 608 Drop, drop, slow tears Duncan Gray cam' here to woo P. Fletcher 258 106 Early on a sunny morning Anonymous 93 Earth has not anything to show more fair Wordsworth 528 Sir W. Raleigh 613 England, with all thy faults, I love thee still From harmony, from heavenly harmony Dryden From the recesses of a lowly spirit Gamarra is a dainty steed Gather ye rosebuds as ye may Gentlefolks, in my time, I've made 599 Gently hast thou told thy message 279 Gille machree, sit down by me Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Wordsworth 344 Ever let the Fancy roam! Every day brings a ship Every one, by instinct taught Every wedding, says the proverb Fairer than thee, beloved T. Hood 763 John Keats 629 T. Moore 519 Dr. R. Hughes 59 Gin a body meet a body. wid the', Jwohnny" Bayard Taylor 71 F. Bowring 278 Shakespeare 656 Tennyson 619 Barry Cornwall 339 R. Herrick 617 C. Sprague 347 H. Fielding 60 many a rhyme C Dibdin 489 Milton. 232 Give me more love or more disdain Lord Surrey 41 Bishop Ken 294 E. B. Browning 62 God makes sech nights, all white an' still F. R. Lowell 102 Anonymous 46 God might have bade the earth bring forth Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Byron 463 Mary Howitt 370 |