Of old sat Freedom on the heights,
The thunders breaking at her feet:
Above her shook the starry lights:
She heard the torrents meet.

Her open eyes desire the truth.
The wisdom of a thousand years
Is in them. May perpetual youth
Keep dry their light from tears.

Of old sat Freedom on the heights.

A. TENNYSON.

No. Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

Religion, virtue, truth, whate'er we call A blessing-Freedom is the pledge of all. Table Talk.

W. COWPER.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Cato, Act ii. Sc. 1.

The love of liberty with life is given,

J. ADDISON.

And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

Palamon and Arcite, Bk. II.

J. DRYDEN.

'T is liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it.

The Task, Bk. V.

W. COWPER.

I must have liberty

Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please.

As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.

SHAKESPEARE.

That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood. And still revolt when truth would set them free. License they mean, when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good. On the Detraction which followed upon my writing Certain Treatises, II.

MILTON.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed ; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the

sod,

Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves near Washington.

J. R. LOWELL.

The sword may pierce the beaver,
Stone walls in time may sever;

'T is mind alone,

Worth steel and stone,

That keeps men free forever.

O, the sight entrancing.

T. MOORE.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race? The Ages.

W. C. BRYANT.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind. Childe Harold, Canto IV.

LORD BYRON.

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they
Who give her aspirations wings,
And to the wiser law of music sway
Her wild imaginings.

To the Memory of Hood.

J. R. LOWELL.

Free soil, free men, free speech, free press,
Fremont and victory!

Chorus: Republican Campaign Song, 1856.

FRIENDSHIP.

R. R. RAYMOND.

A ruddy drop of manly blood

The surging sea outweighs;

The world uncertain comes and goes,

The lover rooted stays.

Epigraph to Friendship.

R. W. EMERSON.

Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweet'ner of life! and solder of society!

The Grave.

R. BLAIR.

Friendship is the cement of two minds,
As of one man the soul and body is;
Of which one cannot sever but the other

Friendship 's the image of

Eternity, in which there 's nothing
Movable, nothing mischievous.

Endymion.

J. LILLY.

Flowers are lovely; Love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;

O the Joys, that came down shower-like,

Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty,

Youth and Age.

Ere I was old!

S. T. COLERIDGE.

'T is sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse

How grows in Paradise our store.

Burial of the Dead.

J. KEBLE.

I praise the Frenchman, * his remark was shrewd,
How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude !
But grant me still a friend in my retreat,
Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet.

Retirement.

W. COWPER.

Friendship 's an abstract of love's noble flame,
'Tis love refined, and purged from all its dross,
'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same.

Friendship: A Роет.

CATH. PHILLIPS.

Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene; Resumes them, to prepare us for the next.

Night Thoughts.

DR. E. YOUNG.

A day for toil, an hour for sport,
But for a friend is life too short.

Considerations by the Way.

R. W. EMERSON.

But sweeter none than voice of faithful friend;
Sweet always, sweetest heard in loudest storm.
Some I remember, and will ne'er forget.

Course of Time, Bk. V.

R. POLLOK.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me. liad, Bk. IX.

HOMER. Trans. of POPE.

Nor hope to find

A friend, but what has found a friend in thee. Night Thoughts, Night II.

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven,
The noble mind's delight and pride,

To men and angels only given,

To all the lower world denied.

Friendship: An Ode.

DR. S. JOHNSON.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar :
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3.

SHAKESPEARE.

Turn him, and see his threads: look if he be Friend to himself, that would be friend to thee: For that is first required, a man be his own ; But he that's too much that is friend to none. Underwood.

B. JONSON.

Lay this into your breast:

Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. Duchess of Malfy.

J. WEBSTER.

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of

refreshment;

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the

fountain.

Evangeline.

H. W. LONGFELLOW.

True happiness

Consists not in the multitude of friends,

But in the worth and choice.

Cynthia's Revels.

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,

B. JONSON.

If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear

A stranger to thy thoughts.

Othello, Act iii. Sc. 3.

SHAKESPEARE.

Friendship above all ties does bind the heart;
And faith in friendship is the noblest part.

King Henry V.

EARL OF ORRERY.

Be kind to my remains; and O, defend,
Against your judgment, your departed friend!

Epistle to Congreve.

J. DRYDEN.

O summer friendship,
Whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in
Our prosperity, with the least gust drop off
In the autumn of adversity.

The Maid of Honor.

P. MASSINGER.

Such is the use ari noble end of friendship, To bear a part in every storin of fate. Generous Conqueror.

B. HIGGONS.

Friendship, like love, is but a rame,
Unless to one you start the flame.

T is thus in friendships: who depend
On many, rarely find a friend.
Fables: The Hare and ma iy Friends.

J. GAY.

Like summer friends,
Flies of estate and sunneshine.

The Answer.

G. HERBERT.

What the declinèd is

He shall as soon read in the eyes of others As feel in his own fail: for men, like butterflies, Show not their mealy wings but to the summer. Troilus and Cressi la, Act ii. Sc. 3.

SHAKESPEARE.

The man that hails you Tem or Jack,
And proves, by thumping on your back,
His sense of your great merit.

Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his frier i in deed
To pardon, or to bear it.

On Friendship.

W. COWPER.

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe.
Bold I can meet.—perhaps may turn his blow ;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, sare, oh! save me from the Candid Friend!
New Morality.

G. CANNING.

Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love. Much Ado about Nothing, Acții. Se, 1.

SHAKESPEARE.

If I speak to thee in Friendship's name,
Thou think'st I speak too coldly ;
If I mention Love's devoted flame,
Thou say st I speak too boldly.

How Shall I Wòo ?

T. MOORE.

Of all our good, of all our bad.
This one thing only is of worth,
We held the league of heart to heart
The only purpose of the earth.

More Songs from Vagabondia : Euroy,

R. HOVEY.