New England Manners And Customs In The Time Of
Bryant's Early Life, by Mrs. H. G. Rowe, continued.


ready to hold his own alike against traitors at home and envious despotisms abroad, we do not forget with what a world of self-sacrifice and patient toil our forbears laid the foundations of this great, free government; nor should we deem it a light thing to have been born citizens of a Republic a thousand times grander, nobler, and, God grant! far more enduring, than those of heathen Greece and Rome, that have long since fallen to decay, and now lie buried beneath the melancholy dust of centuries.
      Let the words of the great poet whose name stands at the head of this paper speak like a word of warning to every heart within their reach: —

                  "And they who founded in our land
                        The power that rules from sea to sea,
                  Bled they in vain, or vainly planned,
                        To leave their country great and free?
                  Their sleeping ashes from below
                        Send up the thrilling murmur, No!"


















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