2. Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! 3. A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, ADDISON'S Italy. ADDISON'S Cato. 4. The greatest glory of a free-born people, 5. But slaves, that once conceive the glowing thought 6. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flowers Of fleeting life their lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. HAVARD. COWPER'S Task. 7. COWPER'S Task. Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, 8. We will not be the traitor slaves, While heaven has light, or earth has graves. 9. Go, tame the wild torrent, or stem with a straw SOUTHEY. The proud surges that sweep o'er the sands that confin'd them; But presume not again to give Freemen a law, Or think, with the chains they have broken, to bind them! 288 FREEDOM-LIBERTY. 10. By the hope within us springing, By that sun, whose light is bringing No charm for him who lives not free! 11. And Oh! if there be, on this earthly sphere, A boon, an offering Heaven holds dear, "Tis the last libation Liberty draws MOORE. From the heart that bleeds, and breaks in her cause! MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. 12. Tho' too true to themselves e'er to crouch to oppression, Who can yield to just rule a more loyal submission? HON. W. GASTON. 13. Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 14. For Freedom's battle, oft begun, Bequeath'd from bleeding sire to son, Tho' baffled oft, is ever won. BYRON'S Giaour. 15. Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For then thy habitation is the heart! BYRON'S Prisoner of Chillon. 16. Should a conqueror tread on our forefathers' dust, It would wake the old bones from their graves. CAMPBELL. AKENSIDE. 17. Those sacred rights to which themselves were born. 18. Oh, Liberty! can man resign thee, Once having felt thy generous flame? Can dungeons, bolts, and bars confine thee, Marseilles Hymn. FRIENDSHIP. 1. Friendship is constant in all other things, Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; And trust no agent. 2. Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, SHAKSPEARE. If thou but think'st him wrong'd, and mak'st his ear SHAKSPEARE. 3. A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. SHAKSPEARE. 4. Who shall compare love's mean and gross desire 5. It still is giving, and still burns the same. The joys of friendship, GAY'S Dione. The trust, security, and mutual tenderness, 6. Friendship above all ties does bind the heart, ROWE. LORD ORRERY. 7. First on thy friend deliberate with thyself; YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 290 8. 9. FRIENDSHIP. Hope not to find YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. The friendships of the world are oft ADDISON'S Cato. 10. Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! 11. And what is friendship but a name, BLAIR'S Grave. GOLDSMITH'S Hermit. 12. Friendship is not a plant of hasty growth; JOANNA BAILLIE. To whom the shadows of long years extend. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 14. Though human, thou didst not deceive me, Though woman, thou didst not forsake, BYRON. 15. He, who, malignant, tears an absent friend, FRANCIS' Horace. 16. A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one warmth, with one resentment glows; My friend must hate the man who injures me. 17. How much to be priz'd and esteem'd is a friend, 18. Oh, friendship! thou balm and sweet'ner of life! 19. When our lives MRS. MARGARET SMITH. Were link'd in one, and our young hearts bloom'd out, 20. Friends my soul with joy remembers! How like quivering flames they start, When I fan the living embers On the hearthstone of my heart! B. B. THATCHER. H. W. LONGFellow. 21. Yes, the summer of life passes quickly away, Soon the winter of age sheds its snow on the heart; But the warm sun of Friendship, that gilded youth's day, Shall still thro' the dark clouds a soft ray impart. A. GIBBS. |