it see the sky.
While now on Him who long has bless'd
To bless her as of yore,
Once more we cry for England,
England once more!

As Past in Present hid,
As old transfused to new,
Through change she lives unchanging,
To self and glory true;
From Alfred's and from Edward's day
Who still has kept the seas,
To him who on his death-morn spoke
Her watchword on the breeze!
While now on Him who long has bless'd
To bless her as of yore,
Once more we cry for England,
England once more!

What blasts from East and North,
What storms that swept the land
Have borne her from her bearings
Since Caesar seized the strand!
Yet that strong loyal heart through all
Has steer'd her sage and free,
--Hope's armour'd Ark in glooming years,
And whole world's sanctuary!
While now on Him who long has bless'd
To bless her as of yore,
Once more we cry for England,
England once more!

Old keel, old heart of oak,
Though round thee roar and chafe
All storms of life, thy helmsman
Shall make the haven safe!
Then with Honour at the head, and Faith,
And Peace along the wake,
Law blazon'd fair on Freedom's flag,
Thy stately voyage take:--
While now on Him who long has bless'd
To bless Thee as of yore,
Once more we cry for England,
England once more!

APPENDIX

A: p. 87

_Till the terrible Day unreveal'd_; Much of course is and will probably
remain unknown among the details of that fatal and fascinating drama,
Mary's life. But all hitherto ascertained evidence has now, mainly by
Mr. Hosack, been sifted so closely and so ably that the main turning
points in her career seem to have reached that twilight certainty beyond
which History can rarely hope to go, and are placed beyond the reach of
reasonable controversy. Such, (not to enter upon the Queen's life as
Elizabeth's captive), is the more than Macchiavellian--the almost
incredible--perfidy of the leading Scottish politicians, united with a
hypocrisy more revolting still, and enabled to do its wicked work, (with
regret we must confess), by the shortsighted bigotry of Knox:--The
gradual forgery of the letters by which the Queen's death was finally
obtained from the too-willing hands of Elizabeth's Cabinet:--The all but
legally proved innocence of Mary in regard to Darnley's death, and the
Bothwell marriage. Taking her life as a whole, it may be fairly doubted
whether any woman has ever been exposed to trials an