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But he never shall send our ancient friend

To be tossed on the stormy sea. Then here's to the oak, the brave old oak,

Who stands in his pride alone; And still flourish he, a hale green tree, When a hundred gone!

years are

LORD

HOUGHTON

(RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES).
1809-1885.

[BORN in 1809: a modern English politician, poet, and prosewriter. A few years after com pleting his university course at Cambridge he was elected to Parliament, and distinguished himse as a zealous supporter of all questions relative to popular education and complete religious equal ity. His literary efforts were various in kind and of an excellent character. His poetical works comprise Poems of Many Years, Memorials of Many Scenes, Poems Legendary and Histeri cal, and Palm Leaves. He was also the author of the Life, Letters, and Literary Remains John Keats, and a contributor to the Westminster Review.]

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The tall pink foxglove bowed his head, The violets courtesied, and went to bed: And good little Lucy tied up her hair. And said, on her knees, her favorite || prayer.

And, while on her pillow she softly lay, She knew nothing more till again it was day;

And all things said to the beautiful sun, "Good morning, good morning! our work is begun.”

THE MEN of old.

I KNOW not that the men of old
Were better than men now."

Of heart more kind, of hand more bold,

Of more ingenuous brow;

I heed not those who pine for force
A ghost of time to raise,
As if they thus could check the course
Of these appointed days.

Still it is true, and over-true,

That I delight to close This book of life self-wise and new, And let my thoughts repose On all that humble happiness

The world has since foregone, The daylight of contentedness That on those faces shone!

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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.

1809-1861.

[BORN at Herts, England, 1809. Published Prometheus Bound and other poems, 1835: the Seraphim and other poems, 1838; Romaunt of the Page, 1839; two volumes of Poems, 1844; married Robert browning, 1846, and went with him to reside in Italy; published in 1850 ber collected works, including The Drama of Exile and Lady Geraldine's Courtship; among her other poems are Casa Guidi Windows, 1851; Aurora Leigh, 1856; Poems before Congress. 1860. The Last Poems were published posthumously in 1862, with a dedication to "grateful Florence," in allusion to the inscription on the tablet which after her death the city of Florence had put up in her honor. She died at Florence, June 29, 1861, with the reputation of being the greatest poetess England had ever produced.]

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