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. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . bOK up, my young American!Stand firmly on the earth,Where noble deeds and mental powerGive titles over birth. A hallowd land thou claimst my boy, By early struggles up with noble memories, And wide, ay, wide as thought! What though we boast no ancient towersWhere ivied streamers twine, The laurel lives upon our soil,The laurel, boy, is thine. And though on Cressys distant field, Thy gaze may not be cast,While through long centuries of blood Rise spectres of the past,— The future wakes thy dreamings thou a note mayst claim— AsjiiringH which in after timesShall swell the trump of fame. And when thourt told of knighthoods shield,And Look up, ray boy, and breathe one word-The name of Washington. BEYOND THE SMILING AND Tllh: WEEPING. _c^^ HORATIUS HONAU. VON I) Uie smiling and tlie wecjungI nhall bo Hofjn ; waking and tfio sleeping,Ueyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall bo , rest, and home ISwccl kmne ILord, lorry not, but come CALL ME NOT DEAD. 269 Beyond the blooming and the fading I shall be soon ;Beyond the shining and the shading,Beyond the hoping and the dreading, I shall be , rest, and home ! Beyond the rising and the setting I shall be soon Beyond the calming and the fretting. Beyond remembering and forgetting, I shall be soon. Love^ rest, and home ! Beyond the gathering and the strowing I shall be soon ;Beyond the ebbing and the flowing, Beyond the coming and the going,I shall be , rest, and home! Beyond the parting and the meeting I shall be soon ;Beyond the farewell and the greeting,Beyond the pulses fever beating, I shall be , rest, and home I Beyond th
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