1847.

God of mercy ! must this last ?

Where they watch their flocks increase,
Is this land preordained,

And store the snowy fleece
For the present and the past

Till they send it to their masters to be woven
And the future, to be chained, -

o'er the waves;
To be ravaged, to be drained,

Where, having sent their meat
To be robbed, to be spoiled,

For the foreigner to eat,
To be hushed, to be whipt,

Their mission is fulfilled, and they creep into
Its soaring pinions clipt,

their graves. And its every effort foiled ?

'T is for this they are dying where the golden Do our numbers multiply

corn is growing, But to perish and to die ?

'Tis for this they are dying where the crowded Is this all our destiny below,

herds are lowing, That our bodies, as they rot,

'T is for this they are dying where the streams May fertilize the spot

of life are flowing, Where the harvests of the strangergrow? And they perish of the plague where the breeze

of health is blowing ! If this be, indeel, our fate,

DENIS FLORENCE MAC-CARTHY.
Far, far better now, though late,
That we seek soinc other land and try some

other zone ;
The coldest, bleakest shore

GIVE ME THREE GRAINS OF CORN,

MOTHER.
Will surely yield us more
Than the storehouse of the stranger that we darc

THE IRISH PAMINE.
not call our own.

Give me three grains of corn, mother,

1 Only three grains of corn ;
Kindly brothers of the West,

It will keep the little life I have
Who from Liberty's full breast

Till the coming of the morn.
Have fed us, whoare orphans beneath a step-dame's I am dying of hunger and cold, mother. –
frown,

Dying of hunger and cold ;
Behold our happy state,

And half the agony of such a death
And weep your wretched fate

My lips have never told.
That you share not in the splendors of our empire
and our crown!

It has gnawed like a wolf, at my heart, mother,

A wolf that is fierce for blood ;
Kindly brothers of the East, -

All the livelong day, and the night beside,
Thou great tiara'd priest,

Gnawing for lack of food.
Thou sanctified Rienzi of Romeandof the earth,- I dreamed of bread in my sleer, mother,
Or thou who bear'st control

And the sight was heaven to see ;
Over golden Istambol,

I awoke with an eager, famishing lip,
Who felt for our misfortunes and helped us in But you had no bread for me.
our deartlı, -

How could I look to you, mother, —
Turn here your wondering eyes,

How could I look to you,
Call your wisest of the wise,

For bread to give to your starving boy,
Your muftis and your ministers, your men of When you were starving too ?
deepest lore ;

For I read the famine in your cheek,
Let the sagest of your sages!

And in your eyes so wild,
Ope our island's mystic pages,

And I felt it in your bony hand, And explain unto your highness the wonders of As you laid it on your child. our shore.

The Queen has lands and gold, mother, -
A fruitful, teeming soil, .

The Queen has lands and gold,
Where the patient peasants toil

While you are forced to your empty breast Beneath the summer's sun and the watery winter A skeleton babe to hold, — sky;

A babe that is dying of want, mother,
Where they tend the golden grain

As I am dying now,
Till it bends upon the plain,

With a ghastly look in its sunken eye,
Then reapit for the stranger, and turn aside to die.' And famine upon its brow.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FA- And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain

That hellish foes confederate for his harm THERS IN NEW ENGLAND.

Can wind around him, but he casts it off: Tre breaking waves dashed high

With as much ease as Samson his green withes. On a stern and rock-bound coast,

He looks abroad into the varied field And the woods against a stormy sky

Of nature ; and though poor, perhaps, compared Their giant branches tossed ;

With those whose mansions glitter in his sight,

Calls the delightful scenery all his own. And the heavy night hung dark

His are the mountains, and the valley his,
The hills and waters o'er,

And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy
When a band of exiles moored their bark With a propriety that none can feel,
On the wild New England shore.

But who, with filial confidence inspired,

Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, Like kindred drops been mingled into one. And smiling say, “My Father made them all!” Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys; Are they not his by a peculiar right,

And, worse than all, and most to be deplored And by an emphasis of interest his,

As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Whose eyes they fill with tears of holy joy, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat Whose heart with praise, and whose exalted mind with stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, With worthy thoughts of that unwcaried love Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. That planned and built, and still upholds, a world Then what is man? And what man, seeing this, So clothed with beauty for rebellious man! And having human feelings, does not blush, Yes, ye may fill your garners, ye that reap And hang his head, to think himself a man! The loaded soil, and ye may waste much good I would not have a slave to till my ground, In senseless riot ; but ye will not find

To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, In feast, or in the chase, in song or dance, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth A liberty like his, who, unimpeached

That sinews bought and sold have ever carned. Of usurpation, and to no man's wrong,

No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's
Appropriates nature as his Father's work, Just estimation prized above all price,
And has a richer use of yours than you.

I had much rather be myself the slave,
He is indeed a freeman. Free by birth

And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. Of no mean city, planned or e'er the hills We have no slaves at home. - Then why abroad? Were built, the fountains opened, or the sea And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave With all his roaring multitude of waves. That parts us are emancipate and loosed. His frecdom is the same in every state;

Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs And no condition of this changeful life,

Receive our air, that moment they are free ; So manifold in cares, whose every day

They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Bring its own evil with it, makes it less. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud For he has wings that neither sickness, pain, | And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, Nor penury can cripple or confine ;

And let it circulate through every vein No nook so narrow but he spreads them there Of all your cmpire ; that, where Britain's power With ease, and is at large. The oppressor holds Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. His body bound; but knows not what a range

WILLIAM COWPER. His spirit takes, unconscious of a chain ; : And that to bind him is a vain attempt, Whom God delights in, and in whom he dwells.

BATTLE-HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC.

WILLIAM COWPER.

Mise eyes have seen the glory of the coming of

the Lord : SLAVERY.

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes

of wrath are stored ; FROM “THE TIMEPIECE."

He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terriO FOR a lodge in some vast wilderness,

ble swift sword. Some boundless contiguity of shade,

His truth is marching on.
Where rumor of oppression and deceit,
Of unsuccessful or successful war,

I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred Might never reach me more ! My ear is pained,

circling camps ; My soul is sick, with every day's report

They have builded him an altar in the evening Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

dews and damps ; There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart;

| I can read his rightcous sentence by the dim and It does not feel for man ; the natural bond

flaring lamps. Of brotherhood is severed as the flax,

His day is marching on.
That falls asunder at the touch of fire.
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin

I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows Not colored like his own, and, having power

of steel : To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause “As ye deal with my contemners, so with you Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

my grace shall deal ; Lands intersected by a narrow frith

Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent Abhor cach other. Mountains interposed

with his heel, Make enemies of nations, who had else

Since God is marching on."