. Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . !While offring peace sincere and just,In Heaven we place a manly trust,That truth and justice shall prevail,And every scheme of bondage fail. Sound, sound the trump of Fame! Let Washingtons great name Ring through the world with loud applause, Ring through the world with loud applause! Let every clime to Freedom dear Listen with a joyful ear! With equal skill and godlike power He governs in the fearful hour Of horrid war; or guides with ease The happier times of honest peace. Behold the chief who now more to serve his
. Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . !While offring peace sincere and just,In Heaven we place a manly trust,That truth and justice shall prevail,And every scheme of bondage fail. Sound, sound the trump of Fame! Let Washingtons great name Ring through the world with loud applause, Ring through the world with loud applause! Let every clime to Freedom dear Listen with a joyful ear! With equal skill and godlike power He governs in the fearful hour Of horrid war; or guides with ease The happier times of honest peace. Behold the chief who now more to serve his country stands, —The rock on which the storm will rock on which the storm will beat!But, armed in virtue firm and hopes are fixed on Heaven and hope was sinking in glooms obscured Columbias day,His steady mind, from changes on death or liberty. Chorus. — Firm, united let us round our Liberty;As a band of brothers and safety we shall find. JONATHAN SWIFT. 91 XX. JONATHAN JONATHAN SWIFT. T (1667-1745.) HERE lived inGreat Britainmany years ago, ingood Queen Annestime, a man namedJonathan Swift, avery able man, but ofa very unhappy dispo-sition. He was usu-ally in a quarrel withsomebody, and was al-most always wretchedbecause he had failedto get something thathe wanted; and, veryfoolishly, instead oflooking within him-self to find the trou-ble, and then settingto work to correct it, he grew sour and morose, andthought all the world bad. Through influence he obtained a living, or parish, andwas for a time rector; he was also Dean of St. Patricks, inDublin, thereby acquiring the title by which he is commonlyknown; but most of his life was devoted to literature. He wrote some very brilliant books, but they were nearlyall bitter satires, in which he ridiculed people in general. 92 STEPPING STONES TO LITERATURE es|)ecially those with whom he had quarreled. His mostfamous book is called Gullivers Tra
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