Advanced reader . nd the stormy winds do blow. The spirits of your fathers Siiall start from every wave— For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave : Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell Your manly hearts shall glow. As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long And the stormy winds do blow. Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep ; Her march is oer the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. W^ith thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below— As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds
Advanced reader . nd the stormy winds do blow. The spirits of your fathers Siiall start from every wave— For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave : Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell Your manly hearts shall glow. As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long And the stormy winds do blow. Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep ; Her march is oer the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. W^ith thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below— As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long. And the stormy winds do blow. The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn ; Till dangers troubled night depart And the star of peace return ; Then, then, ye ocean-warriors ! Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow ; When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow. — Thomas MACAULAY Biographical.—Thomas Babington Macaulay, the most popular andbrilliant of modern prose writers, was born at Rothley Temple, in Leices-tershire, on the 25th of October, iSoot His father, who had acquired amoderate fortune in Jamaica and Sierra Leone, on his return to Englandtook a leading part with Wilberforce and Clarkson in supporting the 5Society for the Abolition of Slavery. Young Macaulay was thus from hisearliest childhood brought into contact with high-minded, earnest people,under circumstances very favorable to the development of literary eighteen he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won distinc-tion in classics. During his undergraduate career he twice carried off the 10Chancellors medal for English verse, and became a distinguished oratorat the Union, the debating society of the University. He took his degreeof in 1822, and two years afterwards was elected a Fellow of hisCollege. The great ambition of Maca^ilays life was
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