..." a steed to stride ; Where but to sport a gun or own a tit * Into a Gentleman transforms a Cit. " Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found ? Art thou a man?" — a Sportsman? ." Look around!" Nor long thine eyes nor long thy fancy strain, But say — I spy the land...

...his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heav'n o'er all the world beside ; His home I lie spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. And is the Negro outlaw'd from his birth ? Is he alone a stranger on the earth ? • Is there no shed,...

...to that pole : For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth, supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter, spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his soften'd...

...trembles to that pole; For in this landof heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and scepire, pageantry and pride, While in his softened...

...to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in hig sol'tcn'd...

...pleasures. " There is a land, of every land the pride, Belov'd by heaven o'er all the woild beside." " There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than ail the rest." Then, alter enlarging more fully on the subject, he continues : " Where shall that land,...

...in this land of Heav'n's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot on earth, supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his soften'd...

...to that pole ; For in this land of Heav'n's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of Earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride. While in his goften'd...

...to that polii For in this land of heaven's peculiar gract*, The heritage of nature's noblest race ; There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest; Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside Mis sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride; While in his soflen'd...

...keen the pang, when I recollected my father's house, so aptly expressed in the words of a poet : 28 *' There is a spot of earth supremely blest, " A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest ; " Where man, creation's tyrant casts aside " His sword and sceptre, pagantry and pride, " While in his softened...