3 'Tis the lesson nature teaches Brightest crowns e'en kings can wear ; Brother, these you "win to wear." EBENEZER ELLIOTT. 208 The True Value of Wealth. O catch dame Fortune's golden smile, And gather gear by every wile 209 W "Work for the Night is Coming." 2 Work, for the night is coming, Something to keep in store; BURNS. 3 Work, for the night is coming, Under the sunset skies, See rosy tints are glowing, Work, for daylight flies; Fadeth to shine no more; Work while the night is darkening, When man's work is o'er. SIDNEY DYER. 210 "How Cheery are the Mariners" OW cheery are the mariners, Hoy Those lovers of the sea! Their hearts are like its yeasty waves, As bounding and as free. They whistle when the storm-bird wheels And sing, &c. 2 What care the mariners for gales? The vessel stout will ride it out, 3 With streamers down and canvass furled, The gallant hull will float Securely, as on inland lake A silken-tasselled boat. 4 God keep those cheery mariners, That sweep along the rocky coast Safe in the hollow of His hand, To brave the mighty sea. PARK BENJAMIN. 66 211 "OH! 2 "A Thousand a Year." H! if I had a thousand a year, Gaffer Green, What a man should I be, and what things would I see, Oh! if I had a thousand a year, Gaffer Green, "The best wish you can make, take my word, Will not pay for the poorest man's cheer; If But be honest and true, and say what you would do you had got a thousand a year, Robin Ruff, you had got a thousand a year ?" If I would do then, I cannot tell what, Gaffer Green, I would go to, I hardly know where ; I would scatter the chink, and leave others to think, While I lived on a thousand a year, Gaffer Green, While I lived on a thousand a year.' "And when you are aged and gray, Robin Ruff, And the day of your death should draw near, What, 'midst all your pains, would you do with your gains, If you then had a thousand a year, Robin Ruff, you then had a thousand a year?” If 3 "I never can tell what you are at, Gaffer Green, For your questions are always so queer, But as other folks die, I suppose so must I." "What, and give up your thousand a year, Robin Ruff, What, and give up your thousand a year? There's a world that is better than this, Robin Ruff, And I hope in my heart you'll go there, Where the poor man's as great, though he'd here no estate, Aye, as if he'd a thousand a year, Robin Ruff, 212 NATIONAL SONGS. England! dear England! HERE'S a land, a dear land, where the rights of the free, Though firm as the earth, are as wide as the sea: Where the primroses bloom, and the nightingales sing, And the true honest man is as good as a king! Show'ry, flow'ry, England! wave-guarded and green to the shore, Glory be with her and peace evermore. 2 There's a land, a dear land, where the vigour of soul Fairest, rarest, Home of brave men and the girls they adore; Thy land, my land, Glory be with her and peace evermore. CHARLES MACKAY, 213 "The Homes of England." THE stately homes of England! How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees The deer across their greensward bound, And the swan glides past them with the sound 2 The merry homes of England! What gladsome looks of household love There woman's voice flows forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told, 3 The cottage homes of England! They are smiling o'er the silvery brooks, And bright the flowery sod, Where first the child's glad spirit loves 214 "Ring the Bell, Watchman." MRS. HEMANS. IGH in the belfry the old sexton stands, Grasping the rope with his thin bony hands; |