he cot;
And we cannot meet him better
Than in working out our lot.
--WHITTIER

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its
greatest defence and ornament; it is its
ancient and natural strength--the floating
bulwark of our Island.--BLACKSTONE'S
_Commentaries_

It is the land that freemen till,
That sober-suited Freedom chose.
The land, where girt with friends or foes
A man may speak the thing he will;
A land of settled government,
A land of just and old renown,
Where Freedom slowly broadens down
From precedent to precedent.
--TENNYSON

O triune kingdom of the brave,
O sea-girt island of the free,
O empire of the land and wave
Our hearts, our hands, are all for thee.
Stand, Canadians, firmly stand,
Round the flag of our Fatherland.
--LACLEDE

Sharers of our glorious past,
Brothers, must we part at last?
Shall we not thro' good and ill
Cleave to one another still?
Britain's myriad voices call,
"Sons, be welded each and all
Into one Imperial whole,
One with Britain, heart and soul!
One life, one flag, one fleet, one Throne!"
Britons, hold your own!
--TENNYSON

"England! What thou wert, thou art!"
Gird thee with thine ancient might.
Forth! and God defend the Right.
--NEWBOLT

Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak people do;
But still believe that story wrong
Which ought not to be true.
--SHERIDAN

He prayeth best who loveth best
All things, both great and small,
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
--COLERIDGE

For whatever men say in blindness,
And spite of the fancies of youth,
There's nothing so kingly as Kindness,
And nothing so royal as Truth.
--ALICE CARY

To do something, however small, to make others
happier a