For Home and Country "Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, 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: "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 X FOR HOME AND COUNTRY The First, Best Country BUT where to find the happiest spot below, From "The Traveller." The On stormy nights when wild north-westers rave, World of How proud a thing to fight with wind and wave! Waters The dripping sailor on the reeling mast Exults to bear, and scorns to wish it past. Where lies the land to which the ship would go? ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH. For Home and Country "Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, 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 |