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VI.

A nobler, fairer far than these

Now stands beside the fountain.Pour down thy purest, brightest drops, Cool, caverned in the mountain!

VII.

A Queen-the Queen of many lands,
From ocean stretched to ocean;
A Queen-the Queen of countless hearts,
That love with deep devotion.

VIII.

No diadem of gold or pearls

Her sunny hair entwineth;
No jewelled zone beneath her breast
Her graceful form confineth.

IX.

No crowned sceptre in her hand,
No purple robes enfold her;
Rich in the charms of womanhood,
In simple guise behold her.

X.

On one of noblest form and mien,
One pearly hand reposing;
A bright-eyed boy smiles in her face,
The other hand enclosing.

XI.

And round her sport, in childish glee,
A sister and a brother;

She stands a Queen-ay, more than Queen,
A happy wife and mother.

XII.

Her brow is bright, her eye is light,
Light as that glittering fountain;

She looks as if she aye had been

A child of flood and mountain.

XIII.

The chalice now is in her hand,

And smiling round her brightly, Her red lips touch the crystal brim, And sip the cool draught lightly.

XIV.

Pass round the cup. First to the Prince
Pass round that limpid water;

Then pass it to the little lips

Of each fair son and daughter.

XV.

Pass round that cup with rev'rent love,
Let each true hand retain it;
On bended knee, with bonnet doffed,
Let peer and peasant drain it.

XVI.

'Tis done! Let cheers from loyal hearts
Ring through the mountain heather.
The brotherhood of human wants

Binds queen and liege together!

"Bravo! bravo! Now, Bishop, your song."

"Wait a moment till Jonathan and I confer on the melody. very well. Now I'm all right. Fill your horns, gentlemen. what's your name?"

"Archy Macbeth, your honour."

Ay, that 'll do

Come, old fellow,

"All hail, Macbeth! You, neighbour, in the plaids, fill up! No heel taps!"

"HERE'S A HEALTH TO THE QUEEN, GOD BLESS HER."

J.

Come fill up your goblets, my boys, fill them up
With the bright drops that flow from the fountain;

To the toast that I give you must drain every cup,
If that cup were as large as a mountain.

Here's the mightiest monarch on whom the sun shines,
Long, long may her people possess her;
VICTORIA REGINA! The Queen of the isles-

Here's a health to the Queen, God bless her!

II.

Come fill up again. Though the juice of the vine,
In such goblets, might turn a man heady;
A draught pure as this will not harm, I opine,
Nor make loyal topers unsteady.

Here's the truest of mothers, the fondest of wives,
May heaven with its blessings caress her;
And the loveliest woman we've seen in our lives-

Here's a health to the Queen, God bless her!

III.

Let others get drunk upon Hock or Champagne,
Chateau Margaux, Madeira, or Claret;
Britannia, you know, boys, alone rules the main,
And her element 's water, I'll swear it.

Then here's to the monarch of water and wave,
May no trial or sorrow e'er press her,

May she live in the hearts of the true and the brave-
Here's a health to the Queen, God bless her!

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And truly we made the hills ring as far as old Bengloe, and the red deer start away to their summits.

"Come," said Absalom, "we've a long walk before us; so let us be moving."

THE LAST OF THE MACARTHYS.

I.

It was an ancient castle,

And proudly did it stand,
With tall grey towers that solemnly
Looked forth o'er sea and land.

The robe of dewy twilight

Has wrapped about its brow,

And many a tree waved round it

The green and shady bough.

II.

And forth a stately noble

Came from the gate alone;

The spreading lawns, the green arcades,
The towers were all his own;
Well might he pace on proudly,
And pausing in his bliss,

Marvel if all the earth might hold
A fairer scene than this.

III.

But, lo, he stands to listen,

For on the night breeze near
The sound of a low, fitful wail,
Comes sighing on the ear.
That plaintive tone he follows,
Until his steps are led
To where a stately cedar tree
Uprears its graceful head.

IV.

There kneeled an old man weeping,
Beside that lonely tree,

His white hairs lay upon the ground,
A piteous sight to see.

Who art thou, hoary stranger,
The wond'ring Baron said,
And the old man lifted tremblingly
His grey and downcast head.

I am a houseless wanderer

In the cold world alone,

I was the lord of all that realm

Which now is named thine own.

I held it from my fathers,

A long and lordly line,

The land was won in their good days, And it was lost in mine!

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THE CHURCH OF ROME IN HER RELATIONS WITH SECULAR GOVERNMENTS.

WE are old enough to remember Alexander Knox, the pious, erudite, and eloquent; whose speculations in matters of religion embraced all that is good in Puseyism, and whose views of civil policy undeniably promoted the cause of what was called Catholic Emancipation. It is among the privileges which years have purchased, to recollect the aphorisms of such a man, and to judge his arguments by the testimony which time has borne to them.

Mr. Knox, we believe, was the most eminent of those speculating politicians who, in latter days, have legislated on the promissory principle. Assuming that all men are subject to the same influences, as they were partakers of the same nature, he argues that Roman Catholics could be won to the common cause of country by giving them an adequate interest in it, and could be induced to renounce the acrimony and estrangement of an intolerant religion, by legislation conceded and carried out in a spirit of generosity and confidence.

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"Romanism, Sir," said he, in one of those philosophical outpourings of conversational eloquence by which he so often captivated and carried away his hearers, Romanism is kept together in these countries not by internal cohesion but by external compression; relieve it from the pressure of unwise laws, deprive it of the strong argument for resistance it finds in the intolerance of your desolating statutes, and you will have withdrawn from it the mainstay which binds it as a permanent and a powerful system." This, we believe, was the assurance which won to the cause of "emancipation" its most ef fective supporters, which made it popu

lar with those whose lives gave to their arguments and predictions the most constraining authority. This was, we need scarcely observe, the assurance which finally prevailed over the strong prejudices and the strong reasons of British Protestants zealous to defend and maintain the constitution, civil and religious, of their country. How it has sped, how the promises made on behalf of Roman Catholics by those who acted as sponsors for them on their "Emancipation," have been kept, we need not remind our readers.

We do not call up these reminiscences in a spirit of complaint, nor do we charge upon the memory of the upright men who, self-deluded, misled others by their example and their eloquence, the evil they were unconsciously instrumental in accomplishing. They never contemplated the attainment of the object on which they had set their hearts, at so enormous a cost as that by which their ends were attained. They never imagined that the measure which they regarded as a triumph of civil and religious liberty was but to date a new epoch in the system of favoritism, changing its direction, but certainly not improving its character. Least of all, did they foresee that the triumph of "Catholic Emancipation" involved ruin to the party which had withstood it ruin in that most hopeless of all forms, where reputation and power are overthrown together.

It was the fatality of Catholic Emancipation, that those who represented the principle of opposition to it were the parties by whose secret contrivance it was carried. Had the leaders of the Tory party relinquished office when they felt themselves divested of power,

"Reports from the Select Committee appointed to report the Nature and Substance of the Laws and Ordinances existing in Foreign States, respecting the Regulation of their Roman Catholic Subjects in Ecclesiastical Matters, and their Intercourse with the See of Rome, or of any other Foreign Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; with an Appendix. Also, Supplementary Papers relating to the above, together with an Index to the whole, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 25th June, 1816, and 28th March, 1819; and to be reprinted 14th February, 1851."

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Correspondence respecting the Relations existing between Foreign Governments and the Court of Rome. Presented to the House of Commons, in pursuance of their Address of the 18th February, 1851."

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