Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Hail, holy Order, whose employ Blends like to like in light and joy: Builder of cities, who of old Call’d the wild man from waste and wold. And in his hut thy presence stealing, Roused each familiar household feeling; And, best of all, the happy ties. The centre of the social band, The instinct of the .fathcrlaiuV’? Bflwer’s ‘.schiller.’ anb of Him, forcfatljcrs ! mtun (Pua) CHcrbaar Uabcrlnnb ! Physically so Small, Morally so Great?so small that its continental territory has an area less than one quarter of England alone?] about that of Wales]?and, rejecting those portions which are occupied by water courses, natural or artificial, is scarcely larger than the state of Massachusetts: ?so yreat that Louis Bouna- Parte, in his address to the Dutch army, assembled upon the plain of Maliban, in 1808, could not refrain ?Frenchman and Celt (or rather Corsican, a race distinct, sni generis, ) as he was?from this remarkable eulogy: the more remarkable because true: Officers and soldiers! Your ancestors gloriously bore the standards and flag of their country to the extremities of the earth. Far north, Ice Master, Bnrcal) and happier ijccmskmk drave, Erst Arctic’s virgin bulwarks burst?to one a glorious grave? The other trinmph’d o'er them froro, that I, is Ilollandish might Might steer to shear the regions drear, grim with Antarctic night; And after frays which mighty praise insure his land alwny, Dying his name’s undying fame won Giberaltar’s day; chapter{Section 4Like Douglas, dead, his mighty dread, ‘gainst odds, that fearful fight Vast riches gave and made his grave cxhanstless fount of light: 'Cowards the West, in Clio’s breast lies hid the remote day When Holland free, in Acadie, Irench’d, built, asserted sway, 'Fore English ship, had made the trip, to stea…