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VI. UNION AND LIBERTY.-GRIMKE.

1. Who would sever Freedom's shrine'?
Who would draw th' invidious line'?
Though, by birth, one spot be mine',
Dear is all the rest'!

Dear to me the South's fair land',
Dear the central mountain band',
Dear New England's rocky strand',
Dear the prairied West'!

2. By our altars pure and free',
By our law's deep-rooted tree',
By the Past's dread memory',
By our WASHINGTON' !—
By our common kindred tongue',
By our hopes, bright, buoyant, young',
By the ties of country strong-

We will still be one'!

3. Fathers, have ye bled in vain'?
Ages, must ye droop again'?
MAKER! shall we rashly stain
Blessings sent by Thee'?

No! Receive our solemn vow,
While before Thy throne we bow,
Ever to maintain, as now,
Union and Liberty!

VII. THE GERMAN'S FATHERLAND.-ARNDT.

1. Where is the German's fatherland'?

Is't Prussia'? Swabia'?

Is't the strand

Where grows the vine, where flows the Rhine'?

Is't where the gull skims Baltic's brine'?
No: yet more great, and far more grand

Must be the German's fatherland!

2. The poet, after naming, in like manner, through five successive verses, all the great divisions of the old Germanic Confederation, celebrating the

praises of each, and receiving, for all, the same reply-"No: these are not the German's land," thus proceeds, in the following three verses, in the true love of country and of home, to answer the question, and invoke the blessings of Heaven upon his fatherland.

3. Where, therefore, lies the German's land`?
Name now, at last, that mighty land!
Where'er resounds the German tongue-
Where German hymns to God are sung-
There', gallant brother', take thy stand'!
That is the German's fatherland!

4. That is his land', the land of lands',
Where vows bind less than clasped hands,
Where valor lights the flashing eye,
Where love and truth in deep hearts lie,
And zeal enkindles freedom's brand--
That is the German's fatherland!

5. That is the German's fatherland!

Great God! look down and bless that land!

And give her noble children souls

To cherish, while existence rolls,

And love with heart, and aid with hand,
Their universal fatherland!

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Edinburgh Review, 134.

Emmet, Robert, 293-4.

Bible, 26, 30, 70, 71, 101, 102, 114, 141, Ellis, Mrs., 144.

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Bulwer, Lytton, 163, 314.

Burke, Edmund, 109, 190, 266, 269.

Burns, Robert, 212.

Butler, 316.

Byrom, 206.

Everett, Edward, 108, 110, 216, 219, 227,
238, 239.

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Fraine, John de, 254.

Franklin, Benjamin, 136, 325.

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Goethe, John Wolfgang von, 73.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 29, 199, 313.

Byron, George Gordon, 118, 179, 208, Good, J. Mason, 138.

220, 241, 274.

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"Greenwood, Grace," 59.

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Macaulay, Thomas B., 163, 267-8, 275. Trench, Archbishop, 350.

MacMaster, G. H., 57.

Macpherson, 136, 217.

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Trowbridge, J. T., 364.

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Massillon, John Baptist, 317.

Milton, John, 113, 183, 210, 247.

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