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F. S. KEY.

_The Star-spangled Banner_.

The star-spangled banner, O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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ALBERT G. GREENE.

_Old Grimes_.

Old Grimes is dead; that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more:
He used to wear a long black coat,
All buttoned down before.

JOHN LOUIS UHLAND.

_The Passage_. _Translated by Mrs. Sarah Austin_.

Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee;
Take--I give it willingly;
For, invisible to thee,
Spirits twain have crossed with me.

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CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH.

_Stanzas_.

Thought is deeper than all speech;
Feeling deeper than all thought;
Souls to souls can never teach
What unto themselves was taught.

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EATON STANNARD BARRETT.

_Woman_.

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Master stung,
Not she denied him with unfaithful tongue;
She, when apostles fled, could danger brave,
Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave.

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MISS FANNY STEERS.

_Song_.

The last link is broken
That bound me to thee,
And the words thou hast spoken
Have rendered me free.

RICHARD BAXTER.
1615-1691.

_Love breathing Thanks and Praise_.

I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.

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ROGER L'ESTRANGE.
1616-1704.

_Fables from several Authors_.

Fable 398.
Though this may be play to you,
'Tis death to us.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

_From Apophthegms_, &c., first gathered and
compiled in Latin, by Erasmus, and now
translated into English by Nicholas Vdall.
8vo. 1542. Fol. 239.

That same man, that rennith awaie,
Maie again fight an other daie.

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_From the Musarum Deliciae_, compiled by Sir
John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. 1640

He that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.[24]

[Note 24: See Butler--Hudibras, _ante_, p. 125.]

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RICHARD GRAFTON.

_Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande_. 1570. 8vo.

"A rule to knowe how many dayes euery moneth in the yeare hath."

Thirty dayes hath Nouember,
Aprill, June, and September,
February hath xxviii alone,
A