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ads Her copious stores and decks the yellow meads, The outcast turns a ghastly look to heaven; Oh, not for him is Nature's plenty given; Robb'd of the birthright nature freely gave, Save that last portion freely left--a grave! Oh, that another power would rule man's heart, Uncramp its free-born will in every part; Mercy more swift, justice more just, more slow, Grandeur less prone to deal the cruel blow, To bind men's hands with fetters than with alms, And spurn the only boon that soothes and calms. England! thou dearest child of liberty; Free as thine ocean home for ever be; Thy commerce thrive; may thy deserted poor No more the pangs of poverty endure. Then shall thy Towers, proud monument! display The thousand trophies of a happier day; And genial climes, from earth's remotest shore, Their richest tributes to her genius pour, With wealth from Ind, with treasures from the West, Thy homes, thy hamlets--cities still be blest; Till virtue, truth, and justice, shall combine, And heavenly hope o'er many a bosom shine; Auspicious days hail thy fair Sovereign's reign, And happy subjects throng their golden train. POEMS AND BALLADS OF GOETHE. No. III. Goethe, though fertile in poems of the amatory and contemplative class, was somewhat chary of putting forth his strength in the ballad. We have already selected almost every specimen of this most popular and fascinating description of poetry which is at all worthy of his genius;--at least all of them which we thought likely, after making every allowance for variety of taste, to fulfil the main object of our task--to please and not offend. It would have been quite easy for us to spin out the series by translating the whole section of ballads which relate to the loves of "the Maid of the Mill," the "Gipsy's Song"--which somewhat unaccountably has found favour in the eyes of Mrs Austin--and a few more ditties of a similar nature, all of which we bequeath, with our best wishes, as a legacy to any intrepid _redacteur_ who may wish to follow in our footsteps. For ourselves, we shall rigidly adhere to the rule with which we set out, and separate the wheat from the chaff, according to the best of our ability. The first specimen of our present selection is not properly German, nor is it the unsuggested and original product of Goethe's muse. We believe that it is an old ballad of Denmark; a country which possess
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