ill
Of trumpets speed him forth,
The Master-Mind your Shakspeare still
Had loved to draw--that to its will
Shapes Fate and Chance with potent skill--
The Numa of the North.

VIII.

Windsor! henceforth a loftier spell
Invests thy storied walls--
The Bards of future years shall tell
That first within thy halls
Imperial TRUTH and MERCY met,
And in that hallow'd hour
Gave earth the hope that Peace shall yet
Be dear to Kings as Power.
When France clasp'd England's hand of old
There memory marks the wane
Of iron times, the bad and bold;[45]
Oh, may our SECOND FIELD of GOLD
A portent still more fair unfold
Of Wisdom's widening reign!

FOOTNOTES:

[43] Almost all Blake's great battles were fought in the Channel. One of
the most memorable was that off Portsmouth, February 1652.

[44] The Princess Marie of Wurtemberg, the most accomplished child of
this most accomplished family, and whose beautiful efforts in sculpture
and painting are well known, died a year after her marriage, January 2,
1839.

[45] The meeting between Francis and Henry took place June 1520, the
first great period of civilized progression in Europe--the era of
Printing--of Columbus--and of the Reformation.

LAMARTINE.

It is remarkable, that although England is the country in the world
which has sent forth the greatest number of ardent and intrepid
travellers to explore the distant parts of the earth, yet it can by no
means furnish an array of writers of travels which will bear a
comparison with those whom France can boast. In skilful navigation,
daring adventure, and heroic perseverance, indeed, the country of Cook
and Davis, of Bruce and Park, of Mackenzie and Buckingham, of Burckhardt
and Byron, of Parry and Franklin, may well claim the pre-eminence of all
others in the world. An Englishman first circumnavigated the globe; an
Englishman alone has seen the fountains of the Nile; and, five years
after the ardent spirit of Columbus had led his fearful crews across the
Atlantic, Sebastian Cabot discovered the shores of Newfoundland, and
planted the British standard in the regions destined to be peopled with
the overflowing multitudes of the Anglo-Saxon race.

But if we come to the literary works which have followed these ardent
and energetic efforts, and which are destined to perpetuate their memory
to future times--the interesting discover