Hark, hark, how it strikes! there is one, two, three, four,
Five, six, seven, eight! will it strike any more?

Yes, yes, if you listen you'll hear when it's done;
Nine, ten, eleven, twelve; the next will be one.

But the wheels would not go, nor the pendulum swing,
Nor the hammer clap, clap, nor the little bell ring,
Nor the two heavy weights go up and down;
Unless there be motion, there cannot be sound.

Go must I, like the clock; have my face clean and bright; My hands, when they are moving, must always do right; My tongue should be guided to say what is true, Wherever I go, and whatever I do.

NOT TO MYSELF ALONE.

TOT to myself alone,"

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The little opening flower transported cries,
Not to myself alone I bud and bloom;

With fragrant breath the breezes I perfume,
And gladden all things with my rainbow dyes;
The bee comes sipping every eventide,
His dainty fill;

The butterfly within my cup doth hide
From threat'ning ill."

"Not to myself alone,"

The circling star with honest pride doth boast, -
"Not to myself alone I rise and set;

I write upon night's coronal of jet,

His power and skill who formed our myriad host;
A friendly beacon at heaven's open gate,

I gem the sky,

That man might ne'er forget, in every fate,

His home on high."

"Not to myself alone,”

The heavy-laden bee doth murmuring hum,

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'Not to myself alone, from flower to flower, I rove the wood, the garden, and the bower, And to the hive at evening weary come;

For man, for man, the luscious food I pile
With busy care,

Content if this repay my ceaseless toil,
A scanty share.”

"Not to myself alone,"

The soaring bird, with lusty pinion, sings, "Not to myself alone I raise the song;

I cheer the drooping with my warbling tongue;
And hear the mourner on my viewless wings;
I bid the hymnless churl my anthem learn,
And God adore;

I call the worldling from his dross to turn,
And sing and soar."

"Not to myself alone,"

The streamlet whispers on its pebbly way,
"Not to myself alone I sparkling glide;
I scatter life and health on every side,
And strew the fields with herb and floweret gay;
I sing unto the common bleak and bare,
My gladsome tune;

I sweeten and refresh the languid air
In droughty June.”

"Not to thyself alone,"

O man, forget not thou, earth's honored priest,
Its tongue, its soul, its life, its pulse, its heart,
In earth's great chorus to sustain thy part;
Chiefest of guests at Love's ungrudging feast,
Play not the niggard, spurn thy native clod,
And self disown;

Live to thy neighbor, live unto thy God,
Not to thyself alone!

UNION AND LIBERTY.

HALL, our country's natal morn!

Hail, our spreading kindred born!

Hail, thou banner not yet torn,
Waiving o'er the free!

While this day in festal throng
Millions swell the patriot song,
Shall not we thy notes prolong,
Hallowed jubilee ?

Who would sever Freedom's shrine?
Who would draw the 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 land,
Dear New England's rocky strand,
Dear the prairied West!

By our altar pure and frée,
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!

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!

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