_J. G. Whittier_ 164

Two Interesting Letters:
I. Columbus to the Lord Treasurer of Spain 167
II. Governor Winslow to a Friend in England 171

Poems of Home and Country:
I. "This is My Own, My Native Land" _Sir Walter Scott_ 174
II. The Green Little Shamrock of Ireland _Andrew Cherry_ 175
III. My Heart's in the Highlands _Robert Burns_ 176
IV. The Fatherland _James R. Lowell_ 177
V. Home _Oliver Goldsmith_ 178

The Age of Coal _Agnes Giberne_ 179

Something about the Moon _Richard A. Proctor_ 183

The Coming of the Birds _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 187

The Return of the Birds _John Burroughs_ 188

The Poet and the Bird:
I. The Song of the Lark 193
II. To a Skylark _Percy B. Shelley_ 197

Hark, Hark! the Lark _William Shakespeare_ 201

Echoes of the American Revolution:
I. Patrick Henry's Famous Speech 202
II. Marion's Men _W. Gilmore Simms_ 206
III. In Memory of George Washington _Henry Lee_ 209

Three Great American Poems:
I. Thanatopsis _William Cullen Bryant_ 213
II. The Bells _Edgar Allan Poe_ 219
III. Marco Bozzaris _Fitz-Greene Halleck_ 224

The Indian _Edward Everett_ 228

National Retribution _Theodore Parker_ 231

Who are Blessed _The Bible_ 233

Little Gems from the Older Poets:
I. The Noble Nature _Ben Jonson_ 235
II. A Contented Mind _Joshua Sylvester_ 235
III. A Happy Life _Sir Henry Wotton_ 236
IV. Solitude _Alexander Pope_ 237
V. A Wish _Samuel Rogers_ 238

How King Arthur got his Name _Fiona Macleod_ 239

Antony's Oration over Caesar's Dead Body _William Shakespeare_ 244

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