Maryland! My Maryland (by James R. Randall)

Baltimore (by B. Rush Plumly)

The Stars and Stripes (by Thomas Williams)

Ohio Fair and Free (by G. W. Y.)

After the Battle of Bull Run

Battle-Hymn of the Republic (by Julia Ward Howe)

Stonewall Jackson's Way (by John W. Palmer)

From The Song of the Rebel (by John Esten Cook)

An Incident of the War (by M. W. M.) .

Calvary-Song (by Elbridge J. Cutler)

Sheridan's Ride (by Thomas Buchanan Read)

The High Tide at Gettysburg (by Will Henry Thompson)

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN

How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry

Pan in Wall Street

ALICE CARY

Sometimes

JOAQUIN MILLER

In Yosemite Valley

From The Ship in the Desert

SIDNEY LANIER

Night and Day

Song for "The Jacquerie"

The Marshes of Glynn

How Love Looked for Hell

EMILY DICKINSON

To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave .

I Died for Beauty

The Way I Read a Letter 's This

The Lovers

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498

WILLIAM MORRELL

· FROM

NEW-ENGLAND

Those well seene Natives in grave Natures hests
All close designes conceale in their deepe brests;
What strange attempts so ere they doe intend
Are fairely usherd in till their last ende;
Their well advised talke evenly conveyes
Their acts to their intents, and nere displayes
Their secret projects by high words or light
Till they conclude their end by fraud or might.
No former friendship they in minde retaine,
If you offend once or your love detaine.

They're wondrous cruell, strangely base and viled,
Quickly displeasd and hardly reconcild;

Stately and great, as read in Rules of state;

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Or what attempt so ere may make them bold;

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Of body straight, tall, strong, mantled in skin
Of Deare or Bever, with the hayre-side in;

An Otter skin their right armes doth keepe warme,
To keepe them fit for use and free from harme.
A Girdle set with formes of birds or beasts
Begirts their waste, which gently gives them ease.
Each one doth modestly binde up his shame,
And Deare-skin Start-ups reach up to the same;
A kinde of Pinsen keeps their feete from cold,
Which after travels they put off, up-fold.

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Themselves they warme, their ungirt limbes they rest,

In straw and houses like to sties. Distrest

With Winters cruell blasts, a hotter clime

They quickly march to; when that extreame time

Is over, then contented they retire

To their old homes, burning up all with fire:

Thus they their ground from all things quickly cleare,
And make it apt great store of Corne to beare.

1625.

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ANONYMOUS

FROM

THE WHOLE BOOKE OF PSALMES

23 A PSALME OF DAVID

The Lord to mee a shepheard is,
want therefore shall not I.
Hee in the folds of tender-grasse

doth cause mee downe to lie:
To waters calme me gently leads,

Restore my soule doth hee:
he doth in paths of righteousnes

for his names sake leade mee.
Yea, though in valley of deaths shade

I walk, none ill I 'le feare;

because thou art with mee, thy rod

and staffe my comfort are.

For mee a table thou hast spread

in presence of my foes:

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1636-40.

the flouds lift up, Lord, flouds lift up,

the flouds lift up their noysc. The Lord on high then waters noyse

more strong, then waves of sea. Thy words most sure: Lord, holines becomes thine house for aye.

PSALME 133

A song of degrees, of David

How good and sweet, o see,
i'ts for brethren to dwell
together in unitee:

It's like choise oyle that fell

the head upon,

that downe did flow

the beard unto,

beard of Aron;

The skirts of his garment

that unto them went downe;

Like Hermons dews descent

Sions mountaines upon;
for there to bee
the Lords blessing,
life aye lasting

commandeth hee.

IO

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1640.

EDWARD JOHNSON

FROM

WONDER-WORKING PROVIDENCE OF SIONS
SAVIOUR IN NEW-ENGLAND

From silent night, true Register of moans,

From saddest soul consum'd in deepest sin,
From heart quite rent with sighs and heavy groans,
My wailing muse her woful work begins,

And to the world brings tunes of sad lament,
Sounding nought els but sorrows sad relent.

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