The World of Waters Bermudas Where the remote Bermudas ride, "What should we do but sing His praise, And makes the hollow seas, that roar, Which, thence (perhaps) rebounding, may Thus sung they, in the English boat, And all the way, to guide their chime, ANDREW Marvell. The World of Waters Where Lies the Land? Where lies the land to which the ship would go? And where the land she travels from? Away, On sunny noons upon the deck's smooth face; The On stormy nights when wild north-westers rave, World of How proud a thing to fight with wind and wave! The dripping sailor on the reeling mast Waters Exults to bear, and scorns to wish it past. Where lies the land to which the ship would go? And where the land she travels from? Away: ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH. For Home and Country "Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, 66 This is the proud claim of Goldsmith's " Traveller," and the same passionate loyalty to the soil inspires all these poems of Fatherland. The Scotsman's heart is in the Highlands, the birthplace of valor, the country of worth; the English warrior boasts of his country: 66 And o'er one-sixth of all the earth, and over all the main, Like some good Fairy, Freedom marks and blesses her domain ;" the Irish Minstrel-boy tears the chords of his faithful harp asunder lest they sound in the service of the foe, while the quick, alarming Yankee drum in Bret Harte's "Reveille" calls upon each freeman to defend the land of the pilgrim's pride, land where his fathers died. Religion, war, and glory were the three souls of a perfect Christian knight, says Lamartine, and if Death's couriers, Fame and Honor, summon us to the field, "Our business is like men to fight And hero-like to die. In Kipling's" Recessional" and Lowell's " Fatherland” we hear a note as valiant, but more spiritual. The one makes us remember that "The tumult and the shouting dies- An humble and a contrite heart." The other leads us to still higher levels of thought, reminding us that wherever a single soul doth pine, or one man may help another, that spot of earth is thine and mine-that is the world-wide fatherland. |