MacMillan's Reading Books - Book V by Anonymous
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Yet remember, England gathers Hence but fruitless wreaths of fame, If the virtues of your fathers Glow not in your hearts the same. What are monuments of bravery, Where no public virtues bloom? What avail in lands of slavery Trophied temples, arch, and tomb? Pageants!--let the world revere us For our people's rights and laws, And the breasts of civic heroes Bared in Freedom's holy cause. Yours are Hampden's Russell's glory, Sydney's matchless shade is your,-- Martyrs in heroic story, Worth a thousand Agincourts! We're the sons of sires that baffled Crown'd and mitred tyranny: They defied the field and scaffold, For their birthrights--so will we. CAMPBELL. |
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