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WILLIAM BASSE.
1613-1648.
_On Shakespeare_.
Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh
To learned dancer, and rare Beaumont lie
A little nearer Spenser, to make room
For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb.
DAVID EVERETT.
1769-1813.
_Lines written for a School Declamation_.
You'd scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage;
And if I chance to fall below
Demosthenes or Cicero,
Don't view me with a critic's eye,
But pass my imperfections by.
Large streams from little fountains flow,
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
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JOSEPH HOPKINSON.
1770-1842.
_Hail Columbia_.
Hail Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
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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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