Chapter 98
_On Shakespeare_.
Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb.
DAVID EVERETT.
1769-1813.
_Lines written for a School Declamation_.
You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pa.s.s my imperfections by.
Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
JOSEPH HOPKINSON.
1770-1842.
_Hail Columbia_.
Hail Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
F. S. KEY.
_The Star-spangled Banner_.
The star-spangled banner, O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
ALBERT G. GREENE.
_Old Grimes_.
Old Grimes is dead; that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more: He used to wear a long black coat, All b.u.t.toned down before.
JOHN LOUIS UHLAND.
_The Pa.s.sage_. _Translated by Mrs. Sarah Austin_.
Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee; Take--I give it willingly; For, invisible to thee, Spirits twain have crossed with me.
CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH.
_Stanzas_.
Thought is deeper than all speech; Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.
EATON STANNARD BARRETT.
_Woman_.
Not she with trait'rous kiss her Master stung, Not she denied him with unfaithful tongue; She, when apostles fled, could danger brave, Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave.
MISS f.a.n.n.y STEERS.
_Song_.