UC-NRLF 
 
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IvIBRARY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 
 
 GIFT OF 
 
 GEORGE MOREY RICHARDSON. 
 
 Received, ^August, 1898. 
 ^Accession No. 73 9& Class No. 
 
ROUND THE WORLD WITH 
 THE POETS 
 
 SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY 
 
 MARY GATE SMITH 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH C. WINN 
 
 put a girdle round about the Earth in forty 
 minutes" SHAKESPEARE 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 CHARLES H. KILBORN, PUBLISHER 
 3 TRKMONT 
 
Copyright, 
 
 1889, 
 BY MRS. H. I. SMITH. 
 
 PRESS OF HENRY H. CLARK & CO., BOSTON, 
 
INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 The design of this little book is to advance, 
 in some degree, that more real and interesting 
 study of geography, now rapidly gaining favor 
 everywhere. 
 
 No longer satisfied with the brief definitions 
 of the school geography, the teacher culls from 
 illustrated books of travel, brilliant narratives of 
 discovery, descriptive poetry, and many other 
 sources, such selections as will attract the young 
 pupil and inspire a more intelligent interest in 
 the study of Nature. 
 
 The words of some "nonsense rhyme," 
 caught on the playground, are remembered 
 long after much studied definitions are forgot- 
 ten. This natural love of rhythm is a strong 
 argument (if any were needed) in favor of the 
 larger use of poetry in the schoolroom, both 
 because of its refining influence and as a prac- 
 tical aid in acquiring and retaining valuable 
 information. m 
 
IV INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 When seen through the poet's eyes, the 
 familiar surroundings of every-day life reveal 
 hidden beauties, and, in imagination, the scenes, 
 the customs, and the wonders of distant lands 
 are brought near. 
 
 Thus supplemented by passages of descrip- 
 tive poetry, the meagre statements of the text- 
 book may be enforced at every point ; and the 
 geography recitation will no longer be a mere 
 exercise in which pupils 
 
 "Can string you names of districts, cities, towns, 
 The whole world over, tight as beads of dew 
 Upon a gossamer thread." 
 
 The selections are arranged in the natural 
 order of the study, and pupils should be required 
 to learn them as the various topics are studied. 
 
 PART I. Physical Features. 
 
 So far as possible, the simplest poetry has 
 been introduced for this elementary study. 
 
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 PART II. Relating" to Special Countries, Mountains, 
 Rivers, etc. 
 
 A more extended range of selections may 
 be chosen for this department, and those given 
 will doubtless suggest others of a similar charac- 
 ter to many teachers. 
 
 PART III. An Illustrative Tour. 
 
 This collection of choice verses, making a 
 continuous journey round the Earth, will afford 
 a valuable school exercise, or a review of the 
 whole work. 
 
 PART IV. Longer Poems of Places. 
 
 The introduction, in longer poems, of the 
 names of places widely separated, which are to 
 be located as soon as named, will furnish a test 
 of accurate and ready knowledge. 
 
ONE VOICE. 
 "Who made the rocks, the hills, the trees, 
 
 The mountains and the vales ; 
 The flocks, the herds, the cooling breeze, 
 The stream that never fails? 
 
 At,!,. 
 
 'Twas God, our Father and our King ; 
 Oh, let us all his praises sing ! " 
 
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 PART ONE. 
 
 THE HILLS. 
 
 silent hills across the lake, 
 Asleep in moonlight, or awake 
 To catch the color of the sky, 
 
 That sifts through every cloud swept by, - 
 How beautiful ye are ! 
 
 Lucy Larcom. 
 
 1 stand upon my native hills again, 
 
 Broad, round, and green, that in the Summer 
 
 sky, 
 
 With garniture of waving grass and grain, 
 Orchards and beechen forests, basking lie, 
 
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 While deep the sunless glens are scoop 'd be- 
 tween, 
 
 Where brawl o'er shallow beds the streams 
 unseen. 
 
 Bryant. 
 
 Here mountain on mountain exultingly throws 
 Through storm, mist, and snow, its bleak 
 
 crags to the sky ; 
 
 In their shadow the sweets of the valley re- 
 pose, 
 
 While streams, gay with verdure and sun- 
 shine steal by. 
 
 William Peter, 
 
 He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find 
 The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and 
 snow. 
 
 Byron. 
 A BROOK SONG. 
 
 I'm hastening from the distant hills 
 With swift and noisy flowing, 
 
 Nursed by a thousand tiny rills, 
 I' m ever onward going. 
 
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 The willows cannot stay my course, 
 With all their pliant wooing ; 
 
 I sing and sing till I am hoarse, 
 My prattling way pursuing. 
 
 I kiss the pebbles as I pass, 
 
 And hear them say they love me, 
 I make obeisance to the grass 
 
 That kindly bends above me, 
 So onward through the meads and dells 
 
 I hasten, never knowing 
 The secret motive that impels, 
 
 Or whither I am going. 
 
 Eugene Field. 
 
 THE BROOK AND THE WAVE. 
 
 The brooklet came from the mountain, 
 
 As sang the bard of old, 
 Running with feet of silver 
 
 Over the sands of gold! 
 
 Far away in the briny ocean 
 There rolled a turbulent wave, 
 
 Now singing along the sea-beach, 
 Now howling along the cave. 
 
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 And the brooklet has found the billow, 
 
 Though they flowed so far apart, 
 And has filled with its freshness and sweetness 
 
 That turbulent, bitter heart. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
 Up in a wild where no one comes to look 
 There lives and sings a little lonely brook ; 
 L,iveth and singeth in the dreary pines, 
 Yet creepeth on to where the daylight shines. 
 
 Adeline D. T. Whitney. 
 
 THE RIVER. 
 
 O tell me, pretty river ! 
 
 Whence do thy waters flow? 
 And whither art thou roaming, 
 
 So smoothly and so slow? 
 
 My birthplace was the mountain, 
 My nurse the April showers ; 
 
 My cradle was a fountain, 
 
 O'er-curtained by wild flowers. 
 
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 One morn I ran away, 
 
 A madcap, noisy rill ; 
 And many a prank that day 
 
 I played adown the hill ! 
 
 And then, 'mid meadowy banks, 
 I flirted with the flowers, 
 
 That stooped, with glowing lips, 
 To woo me to their bowers. 
 
 But these bright scenes are o'er, 
 And darkly flows my wave ; 
 
 I hear the ocean's roar 
 
 And there must be my grave. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 So blue yon winding river flows, 
 It seems an outlet from the sky, 
 
 Where, waiting till the west wind blows, 
 The freighted clouds at anchor lie. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
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 See the rivers flowing, 
 
 Downward to the sea, 
 Pouring all their treasures 
 
 Bountiful and free ! 
 
 Yet, to help their giving, 
 
 Hidden springs arise ; 
 Or, if need be, showers 
 
 Feed them from the skies. 
 
 Adelaide A. Procter. 
 
 THE SEA. 
 
 The sea ! the sea ! the open sea ! 
 
 The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! 
 
 Without a mark, without a bound, 
 
 It runneth the earth's wide regions round ; 
 
 It plays with the clouds ; it mocks the skies ; 
 
 Or like a cradled creature lies. 
 
 Barry Cornwall. 
 
 The current sweeps the Old World ; 
 
 The current sweeps the New : 
 The wind will blow, the dawn will glow, 
 
 Ere thou hast sailed them through. 
 
 Charles Kings ley. 
 
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 THE WAVES. 
 
 Children are we 
 Of the restless sea, 
 
 Swelling in anger, or sparkling in glee ; 
 We follow and race, 
 In shifting chase, 
 Over the boundless ocean-space ! 
 Who hath beheld when the race begun ? 
 Who shall behold it run? 
 
 Bayard Taylor. 
 
 THE SINGERS OF THE SEA. 
 
 Oh, many voices has the sea ! 
 A chorus of rare melody : 
 The solemn bass the lighter tone 
 Flowing in tuneful unison, 
 Without a discord ; sounding high 
 Above the lark that sweeps the sky, 
 Or striking with tumultuous roar 
 Against the frowning rocky shore. 
 In quiet bays, with dreamy song 
 To fragrant airs it glides along. 
 
 Josephine Pollard. 
 
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 GOD AT SEA. 
 
 (From the German.} 
 
 The sea is deep, the sea is broad ; 
 Yet goeth forth the might of God, 
 Deeper than deepest plummet- sound, 
 And wider than earth's watery round. 
 
 So many fishes in the sea, 
 The Lord on all looks lovingly, 
 Gives all their daily food, and still 
 He leads them up and down at will. 
 
 How high the windy billows leap ! 
 If He commands, how still they sleep ! 
 Drawn by His faithful, tender hand, 
 LO ! smallest ships find farthest land. 
 
 John James Piatt. 
 
 THE SKY. 
 
 The sky is a drinking cup, 
 That was overturned of old, 
 
 And it pours in the eyes of men 
 Its wine of airy gold. 
 
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 We drink that wine all day, 
 
 Till the last drop is drained up, 
 
 And are lighted up to bed 
 By the jewels in the cup. 
 
 X. //. StoddarJ. 
 SUNBEAMS. 
 
 See the witching sunbeams, 
 
 With the wand they hold, 
 Turn the earth to emerald, 
 
 And the skies to gold. 
 All the streams are silver, 
 
 'Neath their magic rare, 
 All the black tears night has shed 
 
 Gems for kings to wear. 
 
 Eliza S. Turner. 
 
 THE MOON. 
 
 O moon ! in the night I have seen you sailing 
 
 And shining so round, and low ; 
 You were bright ! ah bright! but your light is 
 failing 
 
 You are nothing now but a bow. 
 
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 Yon moon, have you done something wrong in 
 heaven, 
 
 That God has hidden your face ? 
 I hope if you have you will soon be forgiven, 
 
 And shine again in your place. 
 
 fean fngelow. 
 
 THE STARS. 
 
 What do the stars do 
 
 Up in the sky, 
 Higher than wind can blow 
 
 Or the clouds fly ? 
 Each star in its own glory 
 
 Circles, circles still ; 
 As it was lit to shine and set 
 
 And do its Maker's will. 
 
 Christina Rossetti. 
 
 THE WIND. 
 
 The wind has a language, I would I could 
 
 learn ! 
 Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis 
 
 stern, 
 
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 Sometimes it conies like a low sweet song, 
 And all things grow calm, as the sound floats 
 
 along, 
 
 And the forest is lull'd by the dreamy strain, 
 And slumber sinks down on the wandering 
 
 main, 
 
 And its crystal arms are folded in rest, 
 And the tall ship sleeps on its heaving breast. 
 
 Landon. 
 
 THE SONG OF THE RAIN. 
 
 Lo ! the long slender spears, how they quiver 
 
 and flash 
 
 Where the clouds send their cavalry down ! 
 Rank and file by the million the rain lancers 
 
 dash 
 Over mountain and river and town. 
 
 The pastures lie baked, and the furrow is bare, 
 The wells they yawn empty and dry : 
 
 But a rushing of waters is heard in the air, 
 And a rainbow leaps out in the sky. 
 
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 Hark ! the heavy drops pelting the sycamore 
 
 leaves, 
 How they wash the wide pavement, and sweep 
 
 from the eaves ! 
 Oh, the rain, the plentiful rain ! 
 
 LITTLE SHIPS IN THE AIR. 
 
 Flakes of snow, with sails so white, 
 Drifting down the wintry skies, 
 
 Tell us where }^our route begins, 
 Say which way your harbor lies? 
 
 "In the clouds, the roomy clouds, 
 Arching earth with shadowy dome, 
 
 There's the port from which we sail, 
 There is tiny snow-flakes' home." 
 
 And the cargo that you take 
 
 From those cloudy ports above 
 
 Is it always meant to bless, 
 Sent in anger or in love ? 
 
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 4 * Warmth for all the tender roots, 
 Warmth for every living thing, 
 
 Water for the rivers' flow, 
 
 This the cargo that we bring." 
 
 Who's the Master that you serve, 
 
 Bids you lift your tiny sails, 
 Brings you safely to the earth, 
 
 Guides you through the wintry gales? 
 
 " He who tells the birds to sing, 
 He who sends the April flowers, 
 
 He who ripens all the fruit, 
 That great Master, he is ours." 
 
 E. A. Rand. 
 
 SNOW-FLAKES. 
 
 Out of the bosom of the Air, 
 
 Out of the cloud- folds of her garments shaken, 
 Over the woodlands brown and bare, 
 Over the harvest-fields forsaken, 
 Silent, and soft, and slow 
 Descends the snow. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
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 FROST. 
 
 The Frost looked forth one still, clear night, 
 And whispered : ' ' Now, I shall be out of sight, 
 So, through the valley, and over the height, 
 
 In silence I' 11 take my way. 
 I will not go on like that blustering train 
 The wind and the snow, the hail and the rain 
 Which makes so much bustle and noise in vain, 
 
 But I'll be as busy as they." 
 
 Then he went to the mountain and powdered 
 
 its crest ; 
 He climbed up the trees, and their boughs he 
 
 drest. 
 With diamonds and pearls, and over the breast 
 
 Of the quivering lake, he spread 
 A coat of mail, that it need not fear 
 The downward point of many a spear, 
 That he hung on its margin, far and near, 
 Where a rock could rear its head. 
 
 H. F. Gould. 
 
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 THE WORLD. 
 
 Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, 
 With the wonderful water round you curled, 
 And the wonderful grass upon your breast 
 World, you are wonderfully drest. 
 
 The wonderful air is over me, 
 And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree ; 
 It walks on the water, and whirls the mills, 
 And talks to itself on the tops of the hills. 
 
 You friendly Earth ! how far do you go 
 
 With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers 
 
 that flow, 
 
 With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, 
 And people upon you for thousands of miles ? 
 
 Ah, you are so great, and I am so small, 
 I tremble to think of you, World, at all ; 
 And yet when I said my prayers to-day, 
 A whisper within me seemed to say : 
 
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 "You are more than the Earth, though you 
 are such a dot ; 
 
 You can love and think, and the Earth can- 
 not !" Matthew Browne. 
 
 PART TWO. 
 
 INDIAN NAMES. 
 
 Ye say they all have passed away, 
 
 That noble race and brave, 
 That their light canoes have vanished 
 
 From off the crested wave, 
 That 'mid the forests where they roamed 
 
 There rings no hunter's shout; 
 But their name is on your waters, 
 
 Ye may not wash it out. 
 
 'Tis where Ontario's billow 
 Like Ocean's surge is curled ; 
 
 Where strong Niagara's thunders wake 
 The echo of the world ; 
 
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 Where red Missouri bringeth 
 
 Rich tribute from the west, 
 And Rappahannock sweetly sleeps 
 
 On green Virginia's breast. 
 
 Ye say, their cone-like cabins, 
 
 That clustered o'er the vale, 
 Have fled away like withered leaves, 
 
 Before the autumn gale : 
 But their memory liveth on your hills, 
 
 Their baptism on your shore ; 
 Your everlasting rivers speak 
 
 Their dialect of yore, 
 
 Old Massachusetts wears it 
 
 Within her lordly crown, 
 And broad Ohio bears it 
 
 Mid all her young renown ; 
 Connecticut hath wreathed it 
 
 Where her quiet foliage waves, 
 And bold Kentucky breathed it hoarse 
 
 Through all her ancient caves. 
 
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 Wachuset hides its lingering voice 
 
 Within his rocky heart, 
 And Alleghany graves its tone 
 
 Throughout his lofty chart ; 
 Monadnock on his forehead hoar 
 
 Doth seal the sacred trust ; 
 Your mountains build their monument, 
 
 Though ye destroy their dust. 
 
 Mrs. Sigourney. 
 
 MAINE. 
 
 Far in the sunset's mellow glory, 
 
 Far in the daybreak's pearly bloom, 
 Fringed by Ocean's foamy surges, 
 
 Belted in by woods of gloom, 
 Stretch thy soft, luxuriant borders, 
 
 Smile thy shores, in hill and plain, 
 Flower-enamelled, ocean girdled, 
 
 Green bright shores of Maine. 
 
 Rivers of surpassing beauty 
 
 From thy hemlock \voodlands flow, 
 Androscoggin and Penobscot, 
 
 Saco, chilled by northern snow ; 
 
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 These from many a lowly valley 
 Thick by pine-trees shadowed o'er, 
 
 Sparkling from their ice-cold tributes 
 To the surges of thy shore. 
 
 Bays resplendent as the heaven, 
 
 Starred and gemmed by thousand isles, 
 Gird thee, Casco with its islets, 
 
 Quoddy with its dimpled smiles ; 
 O'er them swift the fisher's shallop 
 
 And tall ships their wings expand, 
 While the smoke-flag of the steamer 
 Flaunteth out its cloudy streamer, 
 
 Bound unto a foreign strand. 
 
 Isaac McLellan. 
 
 Where white Katahdin o'er the horizon shines, 
 And broad Penobscot dashes through the pines. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 From gray sea-fog, from icy drift, 
 
 From peril and from pain, 
 The home-bound fisher greets thy lights, 
 
 O hundred harbored Maine ! 
 
 Whittier. 
 
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 NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 God bless New Hampshire! from her granite 
 
 peaks 
 Again the voice of Stark and I^angdon speaks. 
 
 Whittidr. 
 
 And fair are the sunny isles in view 
 East of the grisly Head of the Boar, 
 
 And Agamenticus lifts its blue 
 
 Disk of a cloud the woodlands o'er. 
 
 Whit tier. 
 
 THE GATES OF THE HUDSON. 
 
 I see the beetling Palisades, 
 
 Whose wrinkled brows forever, 
 In calms and storms, in lights and shades, 
 
 Keep watch along the river. 
 
 William O. Stoddard. 
 
 I have stood 
 
 Where Hudson rolled his lordly flood: 
 Seen sunrise rest and sunset fade 
 Along his frowning Palisade; 
 
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 Looked down the Appalachian peak 
 On Juniata's silver streak; 
 Have seen along his valley gleam 
 The Mohawk's softly winding stream ; 
 The level light of sunset shine 
 Through broad Potomac's hem of pine ; 
 And Autumn's rainbow- tinted banner, 
 Hang lightly o'er the Susquehanna. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 In that delightful land which is washed by the 
 
 Delaware's waters, 
 Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn 
 
 the apostle, 
 Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the 
 
 city he founded. 
 There all the air is balm and the peach is the 
 
 emblem of beauty, 
 And the streets still re-echo the names of the 
 
 trees of the forest, 
 As if they fain would appease the Dryads whose 
 
 haunts they molested. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
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 THE SOUTH. 
 
 Fall, thickly fall, thou winter snow ! 
 
 And keenly blow, thou winter wind ! 
 Only the barren North is yours, 
 
 The South delights a Summer mind ; 
 So fall and blow, 
 Both wind and snow, 
 My Fancy to the South doth go. 
 
 Half-way between the frozen zones, 
 Where Winter reigns in solemn mirth, 
 
 The Summer binds a golden belt 
 About the middle of the Earth. 
 
 The sky is soft, and blue, and bright, 
 
 With purple dyes at morn and night; 
 
 And bright and blue the seas which lie 
 In perfect rest, and glass the sky. 
 
 The spicy \voods are full of birds, 
 
 And golden fruits and crimson flowers ; 
 
 With wreathed vines on every bough, 
 
 That shed their grapes in purple showers. 
 
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 The emerald meadows roll their waves, 
 And bask in soft and mellow light ; 
 
 The vales are full of silver mist, 
 And all the folded hills are bright. 
 
 A'. H. Stoddard. 
 
 TO THE WEST. 
 
 Land of the west ! beneath the Heaven 
 
 There's not a fairer, lovelier clime; 
 Nor one to which was ever given 
 
 A destiny more high, sublime. 
 From Alleghany's base, to where 
 
 Our western Andes prop the sky 
 The home of Freedom's hearts is there, 
 
 And o'er it Freedom's eagles fly. 
 
 W, D. Gallagher. 
 
 THE PICTURED ROCKS. 
 
 A scene 
 
 Rose lovelier than in dreams hath been, 
 Where many a mile, from wave to skies, 
 Sublime the Pictured Rocks arise, 
 
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 And gain from years of sun and storms ' 
 But added glories, brighter forms. 
 While on their surface, smooth or rent, 
 In thousand shapes were brightly blent 
 The thousand hues of earth and air, 
 Through varied pictures, rich and rare, 
 Structure and landscape, flame and smoke 
 As painted by the pencil's stroke, 
 And forms which Fancy draws at will 
 With all her fair, capricious skill. 
 
 MINNESOTA. 
 
 (The Water Shed.) 
 
 Behold the rocky wall 
 
 That down its sloping sides 
 Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they 
 fall, 
 
 In rushing river-tides ! 
 
 Yon stream, whose sources run 
 
 Turned by a pebble's edge, 
 Is Athabasca, rolling towards the sun 
 
 Through the cleft mountain ledge. 
 
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 The slender rill had strayed, 
 
 But for the slanting stone, 
 To evening's ocean, with the tangled braid 
 
 Of foam-flecked Oregon. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
 
 Come forth to sunlight and the air, 
 To hear the birds their warblings make, 
 By lone Itaska's lovely lake, 
 Whence, bosomed in the woody earth, 
 The Father of Waters hath his birth. 
 
 where the Father of Waters 
 
 Seizes the hills in his hands and drags them 
 down to the ocean. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
 A RIVER IN MAMMOTH CAVE. 
 
 Darkly thou glidest onward, 
 
 Thou deep and hidden wave ! 
 The laughing sunshine hath not look'd 
 
 Into thy secret cave. 
 
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 Thy current makes no music 
 
 A hollow sound we hear; 
 A muffled voice of mystery, 
 
 And know that thou art near. 
 
 COLORADO CANON. 
 
 Down in a canon so cleft asunder 
 
 By sabre-stroke in the young world's prime, 
 
 It looks as if broken by bolts of thunder, 
 Riven and driven by turbulent time. 
 
 Joaqnin Miller. 
 
 MEXICO. 
 
 (From "A White Umbrella in Mexico"} 
 
 It was more than enough to revel in an Italian 
 sun lighting up a semi-tropical land ; to look up 
 to white-capped peaks towering into the blue ; to 
 look down upon wind-swept plains encircled 
 by ragged chains of mountains ; to catch the 
 sparkle of miniature cities jeweled here and there 
 in oases of olive and orange ; and to realize that 
 to-day, in its varied scenery, costumes, architect- 
 ure, street life, canals crowded with flower-laden 
 
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 boats, market plazas thronged with gayly dressed 
 natives, faded church interiors, and abandoned 
 convents, Mexico is the most marvellously pict- 
 uresque country under the sun. A tropical 
 Venice ! a semi-barbarous Spain ! a new Holy 
 Land. 
 
 F. Hop kins on Smith. 
 
 GULF STREAM. 
 
 Great Gulf! Thy mighty waters be 
 A marvel and a mystery 
 From eldest time ; whose billows, tost 
 A thousand miles from coast to coast, 
 Forth from thy bosom, send a tide, 
 A thousand leagues the waves to ride. 
 
 ICEBERGS. 
 
 Parting their arctic anchors, 
 The bergs came drifting by, 
 
 A fearful fleet for a ship to meet 
 Under the midnight sky ; 
 
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 Their keels are fathoms under, 
 Their prows are sharp as steel, 
 
 Their stroke, the crash of thunder, 
 All silently on they steal. 
 
 Me Gee. 
 
 SEAWEED. 
 
 When descends on the Atlantic 
 
 The gigantic 
 
 Storm-wind of the equinox, 
 Landward in his wrath he scourges 
 
 The toiling surges, 
 Laden with seaweed from the rocks : 
 
 From Bermuda's reefs ; from edges 
 
 Of sunken ledges, 
 In some far-off, bright Azore ; 
 From Bahama, and the dashing, 
 
 Silver flashing 
 Surges of San Salvador ; 
 
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 From the tumbling surf, that buries 
 
 The Orkneyaii skerries, 
 Answering the hoarse Hebrides ; 
 And from wrecks of ships, and drifting 
 
 Spars, uplifting 
 On the desolate rainy seas. 
 
 Ever drifting, drifting, drifting 
 
 On the shifting 
 Currents of the restless main ; 
 Till in sheltered coves, and reaches 
 
 Of sandy beaches, 
 All have found repose again. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
 BERMUDAS. 
 
 For the kind Spring (which but salutes us 
 
 here) 
 
 Inhabits these, and courts them all the year : 
 Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees 
 
 live ; 
 At once they promise and at once they give. 
 
 Waller, 
 
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 Where the remote Bermudas ride 
 In Ocean's bosom unespied. 
 
 A. Marvel. 
 
 THE NORTHERN SEAS. 
 
 Up ! up ! let us a voyage take ; 
 
 Why sit we here at ease? 
 Find us a vessel tight and snug, 
 
 Bound for the Northern Seas. 
 
 I long to see the Northern Lights, 
 With their rushing splendors fly, 
 
 Like living things, with flaming wings, 
 Wide o'er the wondrous sky. 
 
 I long to see those icebergs vast, 
 With heads all crowned with snow ; 
 
 Whose green roots sleep in the awful deep 
 Two hundred fathoms low. 
 
 I long to hear the thundering crash 
 Of their terrific fall ; 
 
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 And the echoes from a thousand cliffs, 
 lonely voices call. 
 
 There shall we see the fierce white bear, 
 
 The sleepy seals aground ; 
 And the spouting whales that to and fro 
 
 Sail with a dreary sound. 
 
 And while the unsetting sun shines on 
 Through the still heaven's deep blue, 
 
 We'll traverse the azure waves, the herds 
 Of the dread sea-horse to view. 
 
 We '11 pass the shores of solemn pine, 
 Where wolves and black bears prowl, 
 
 And away to the rocky isles of mist, 
 To rouse the Northern fowl. 
 
 And there in the wastes of the silent sky, 
 
 With the. silent earth below, 
 We shall see far off to his lonely rock 
 
 The lonely eagle go. 
 
 William Hewitt. 
 
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 BIDDING THE SUN "GOOD-NIGHT" IN 
 LAPLAND. 
 
 Come little daughters, hasten, 
 Ye should be bravely dight ! 
 
 Make ready, boys ! for we go forth 
 To bid the sun good-night. 
 
 Four months with steady shining 
 He's made the whole earth fair, 
 
 And myriad blossoms greeted him, 
 And bird-songs filled the air. 
 
 But now October waneth, 
 His setting draweth near ; 
 
 We shall not see his face again 
 For more than half a year. 
 
 From many a neighboring village, 
 From many a humble home, 
 
 To climb the rocky summit 
 The thronging people come. 
 
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 The sun hangs low in heaven ; 
 
 He throws his slanting rays 
 Across their loving faces, turned 
 
 To meet his parting gaze. 
 
 And now he's gone! The darkness 
 
 Is setting like a pall. 
 A long low dirge of sad farewell 
 
 Breaks from the lips of all. 
 
 In mournful cadence chanting 
 
 The requiem of the sun, 
 The dear, bright day departed now, 
 
 The long, long night begun. 
 
 And yet with cheerful patience 
 They take their homeward way, 
 
 The elders talking how the time 
 May best be whiled away. 
 
 Joy Allison. 
 
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 ICELAND. 
 
 Land of volcano and of fire, 
 Of icy mountains, deserts hoar, 
 
 Of roaring floods, and earthquakes dire, 
 And legendary lore ! 
 
 The polar billows round thee foam 
 
 O Iceland ! long the Norseman's home. 
 
 SCOTLAND. 
 
 Land of the green wood by the silver rill, 
 The heather and the daisy of the hill, 
 The guardian thistle to the foeman stern, 
 The wild rose, hawthorn, and the lady-fern ; 
 
 Land of the lark, that like a seraph sings, 
 Beyond the rainbow, upon quivering wings ; 
 Land of wild beauty and romantic shapes, 
 Of sheltered valleys and of stormy capes ; 
 
OF THK 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 35 
 
 Of the bright garden and the tangled brake, 
 Of the dark mountain and the sun-lit lake ; 
 Land of my birth, and of my .father's grave, 
 The eagle's home, the eyrie of the brave. 
 
 James Gray. 
 
 MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS. 
 
 My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not 
 
 here ; 
 My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the 
 
 deer; 
 
 Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe 
 My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. 
 Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the 
 
 North, 
 
 The birthplace of valor, the country of worth ; 
 Wherever I w r ander, wherever I rove, 
 The hills of the Highlands forever I love. 
 Farewell to the mountains high covered with 
 
 snow ; 
 
 Farewell to the straths and green valley below ; 
 Farewell to the forests and wild hanging woods ; 
 Farewell to the torrents and loud pouring floods 
 
 Robert Burns. 
 
36 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 ENGLAND. 
 
 Green fields of England ! whereso'er 
 Across this watery waste we fare, 
 Your image at our hearts we bear 
 Green fields of England everywhere. 
 
 Arthur Hugh C lough. 
 
 THE THAMES. 
 
 Then commerce brought into the public walk 
 The busy merchant ; the big warehouse built ; 
 Raised the strong crane ; choked up the loaded 
 
 street 
 
 With foreign plenty ; and thy stream, O Thames, 
 Large, gentle, deep, majestic, king of floods ! 
 Chose for his grand resort. 
 
 James Thomson. 
 
 The Avon to the Severn runs, 
 The Severn to the sea, - 
 
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 37 
 HOLLAND. 
 
 To men of other minds my fancy flies, 
 Imbosomed in the deep where Holland lies, 
 Methinks her patient sons before me stand, 
 Where the broad ocean leans agains the land, 
 And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, 
 Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. 
 
 Goldsmith. 
 
 A land that rides at anchor and is moored, 
 In which they do not live but go aboard. 
 
 Samuel Butlet. 
 RUSSIA. 
 
 Her head in arctic winters, she looks round, 
 Westward and eastward from the wild White 
 
 Cape, 
 Across Siberian wastes to Behring Strait. 
 
 TO MOSCOW. 
 
 Across the steppe we journeyed, 
 
 The brown, fir-darkened plain 
 That rolls to east and rolls to west, 
 
 Broad as the billowy main, 
 
38 ROUND THE WORIvD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 When lo ! a sudden splendor 
 
 Came shimmering through the air, 
 As if the clouds should melt and leave 
 
 The heights of heaven bare, 
 A maze of rainbow domes and spires 
 
 Full glorious on the sky, 
 With wafted chimes from many a tower 
 
 As the south- wind went by, 
 And a thousand crosses lightly hung 
 
 That shone like morning stars, 
 'Twas the Kremlin wall! 'twas Moscow, 
 
 The jewel of the Czars ! 
 
 Edna Dean Proctor. 
 
 NORWAY. 
 
 Winter has its icy crown 
 
 Pressed round Norway's temples hoary; 
 Midnight's sun has showered down 
 
 On her head its glory. 
 
 Time's swift waves their power broke 
 ' Gainst her ancient rocks and boulders ; 
 
 And the sea its misty cloak 
 Flung around her shoulders. 
 
 H. H. Boyesen. 
 
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 39 
 
 THE RHINE. 
 
 How many spacious countries does the Rhine, 
 In winding banks, and mazes serpentine, 
 Traverse, before he splits on Belgia's plain, 
 And, lost in sand, creeps to the German main? 
 
 Sir Richard Blackmore. 
 
 "It is the Rhine ! our mountain vineyards lav- 
 ing; 
 
 I see the bright flood shine, 
 Sing on the march, with every banner wav- 
 ing 
 Sing, brothers, 'tis the Rhine!" 
 
 TO THE RIVER RHONE. 
 
 Thou Royal River, born of sun and shower 
 In chambers purple with the Alpine glow, 
 Wrapped in the spotless ermine of the snow 
 
 And rocked by tempests ! at the appointed 
 hour 
 
40 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 Forth, like a steel-clad horseman from a tower, 
 With clang and clink of harness dost thou go 
 To meet thy vassal torrents, that below 
 Rush to receive thee and obey thy power. 
 
 And now thou mo vest in triumphal march, 
 A king among the rivers ! On thy way 
 A hundred towns await and welcome thee ; 
 
 Bridges uplift for thee the stately arch, 
 Vineyards encircle thee with garlands gay, 
 And fleets attend thy progress to the sea ! 
 
 Longfellow 
 SWITZERLAND. 
 
 (Selection from the " Guests of the Nation.''') 
 
 But who is she comes with her, with such a 
 
 mountain air 
 And singing on her way, 
 A simple spray of edelweiss in her abundant 
 
 hair, 
 A cold light in her bright, blue eyes, like 
 
 that of winter day, 
 Steady but sparkling like her lakes which 
 
 Heaven stoops down to see, 
 And sees itself so clearer ? Who may the maiden 
 
 be? 
 
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 41 
 
 No maiden, but a matron, mother of sturdy men, 
 Whose lion spirits Nature with independence 
 
 fills 
 Walled in with kingdoms, empires, and the 
 
 everlasting hills. 
 
 A>. // Stoddard. 
 
 SWISS SONG. 
 
 I love St. Gothard's head of snows, 
 
 That shoots into the sky, 
 Where, yet unform'd, in grim repose 
 
 Ten thousand avalanches lie. 
 
 I love Lucerne's transparent lake, 
 
 And Jura's hills of pride, 
 Whence infant rivers, gushing, break 
 
 With small and scanty tide. 
 
 And thou, Mont Blanc ! thou mighty pile 
 
 Of crags and ice and snow ; 
 The Gallic foes in wonder smile 
 
 That we should love thee so ! 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
42 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 JUNGFRAU. 
 
 A wild of waters lies between 
 Me and a picture I have seen. 
 It was amid the icy flow 
 Of rivers from the Alpine snow, - 
 
 An upland field of verdant ground, 
 Where the far echoes round and round 
 Of Alpine horns rang musical, 
 Swelled by the roaring waterfall. 
 
 There late and weary of the way 
 Ne'er will my heart forget the day ; 
 The mist ran low, and islanded 
 On high, I saw the Jungfrau's head. 
 
 There standing, all at once a sound 
 Came to me from the deep profound 
 That left the noise of waterfalls 
 From inaccessible high walls. 
 
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 It was an avalanche unseen, 
 That, issuing two high crags between, 
 Flowed thundering down the mountain steep 
 Into a chasm wide and deep. 
 
 /. //. Morse. 
 
 The clouds are on the Oberland, 
 
 The Jungfrau snows look faint and far; 
 
 But bright are those green fields at hand, 
 And through those fields comes down the Aar. 
 
 Matthew Arnold. 
 
 THE ALPS. 
 
 Peaks after peaks in marvellous glory rise, 
 With crests of snow against the deep blue skies ; 
 All silent stand, sav when the storm awakes, 
 And down their flanks the thundering ava- 
 lanche breaks ; 
 
 All silent stand ; the guardians of the scene, 
 In voiceless might, in majesty serene. 
 
44 ROUND THE WORIvD WITH THE} POETS. 
 THE MOUNTAIN BOY. 
 
 (From the Gertnaii ) 
 
 A herd-boy on the mountain's brow, 
 I see the castles all below; 
 The sunbeam here is earliest cast, 
 And by my side it lingers last 
 I am the boy of the mountain ! 
 
 The mother-house of streams is here 
 I drink them in their cradles clear ; 
 From out the rock they foam below, 
 I spring to catch them as the} 7 go ! 
 I am the boy of the mountain ! 
 
 Below me clouds and thunders move ; 
 I stand amid the blue above. 
 I shout to them with fearless breast : 
 " Go leave my father's house in rest ! " 
 I am the boy of the mountain ! 
 
 Bayard Taylor. 
 
 ..... Far along 
 From peak to peak the rattling crags among 
 
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 45 
 
 Leaps the live thunder. Not from one lone cloud, 
 But every mountain now hath found a tongue, 
 And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, 
 Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! 
 
 Byron. 
 
 SONG OF THE ALPS. 
 
 I sit aloft on my thunder throne, 
 
 And my voice of dread the nations own 
 
 As I speak in storm below ! 
 The valleys quake with a breathless fear, 
 When I hurl in wrath my icy spear 
 
 And shake my locks of snow ! 
 When the avalanche forth like a tiger leaps 
 
 How the vassal mountains quiver ! 
 And the storm that sweeps through the airy 
 deeps 
 
 Makes the hoary pine-wood shiver ! 
 Above them all, in a brighter air, 
 I lift my forehead proud and bare. 
 The winds imprisoned around me blow, 
 And terrible tempests whirl the snow ; 
 Rocks from their caverned beds are torn, 
 And the blasted forest to heaven is borne ; 
 
46 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 High through the din of the stormy band, 
 Like misty giants the mountains stand. 
 And their thunder-revel o'er sounds the woe, 
 That cries from the desolate vales below ! 
 I part the clouds with my lifted crown, 
 Till the sun-ray slants on the glaciers down, 
 And trembling men, in the valleys pale, 
 Rejoice at the gleam of my icy mail ! 
 
 Bayard Taylor. 
 
 We 've sailed through banks of green, 
 
 Where the wild waves fret and quiver ; 
 And we've down the Danube been 
 
 The dark, deep, thundering river ! 
 We've thridded the Elbe and Rhone, 
 
 The Tiber and blood -dyed Seine, 
 And we 've been where the blue Garonne 
 
 Goes laughing to meet the main ! 
 
 Barry Cornwall. 
 ITALY. 
 
 Iii the fair land o'erwatched by Ischia's moun- 
 tains, 
 Across the charmed bay 
 
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 Whose blue waves keep with Capri's silver 
 
 fountains 
 Perpetual holiday. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
 DRIFTING. 
 
 My soul to day 
 
 Is far away 
 Sailing the Vesuvian Bay ; 
 
 My winged boat, 
 
 A bird afloat, 
 Swims round the purple peaks remote. 
 
 Far, vague, and dim, 
 
 The mountains swim ; 
 While on Vesuvius' misty brim, 
 
 With outstretched hands, 
 
 The gray smoke stands 
 Overlooking the volcanic lands. 
 
 Here Ischia smiles 
 O'er liquid miles ; 
 And yonder, bluest of the isles, 
 
48 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 Calm Capri waits, 
 Her sapphire gates 
 Beguiling to her bright estates. 
 
 Yon deep bark goes 
 
 Where Traffic blows, 
 From lands of sun to lands of snow ; 
 
 This happier one 
 
 Its course is run 
 From lands of snow to lands of sun. 
 
 T B. Read. 
 VENICE. 
 
 White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest 
 So wonderfully built among the reeds 
 Of the lagoon, 
 
 White phantom city, whose untrodden streets 
 Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shift- 
 ing 
 Shadows of palaces and strips of sky ;.,... 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
HK 
 
 TJNIVERSn 
 
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 GREECE. 
 
 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! 
 
 Where burning Sappho loved and sung, 
 Where grew the arts of war and peace, - 
 Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! 
 Eternal summer gilds them yet, 
 But all, except their sun, is set. 
 
 Byron. .. 
 
 Far in the east 
 
 The ^Egean twinkles, and its thousand isles 
 hover in mist. 
 
 /, G. Percival. 
 
 Lands, intersected by a narrow firth, 
 Abhor each other. Mountains interposed 
 Make enemies of nations, which had else, 
 Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. 
 
 Cowper. 
 * 
 
 AFRICA. 
 
 Where the stupendous Mountains of the Moon 
 Cast their broad shadows o'er the realms of noon 
 
50 ROUND THE WORI^D WITH THE POETS. 
 
 From rude Caffraria, where the giraffes browse 
 With stately heads among the forest boughs, 
 To Atlas, where Numidian lions glow 
 With torrid fire beneath eternal snow ; 
 From Nubian hills, that see the dawning day, 
 To Guinea's coast, where evening fades away ; 
 Regions immense, unsearchable, unknown ; 
 Bask in the splendor of the solar zone, 
 A world of wonders, where creation seems 
 No more the work of Nature, but her dreams. 
 
 James Montgomery. 
 
 SYRIA. 
 
 Now upon Syria's land of roses 
 Softly the light of eve reposes, 
 And, like a glory, the broad sun 
 Hangs over sainted Lebanon ; 
 
 Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, 
 And whitens with eternal sleet, 
 
 While Summer, in a vale of flowers, 
 Is sleeping rosy at his feet. 
 
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 And then, the mingling sounds that come, 
 Of shepherd's ancient reed, with hum 
 
 Of the wild bees of Palestine, 
 Banqueting through the flowery vales ; 
 
 And, Jordan, those sweet banks of thine, 
 And woods, so full of nightingales ! 
 
 MOQTt. 
 
 EGYPT. 
 
 Still through Egypt's desert places 
 
 Flows the lordly Nile, 
 From its banks the great stone faces 
 
 Gaze with patient smile ; 
 
 Still the pyramids imperious 
 
 Pierce the cloudless skies, 
 And the sphinx stares with mysterious, 
 
 Solemn, stony eyes. 
 
 The mighty pyramids of stone 
 
 ThaJ. wedge-like cleave the desert airs, 
 
 When nearer seen, and better known, 
 Are but gigantic flights of stairs. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
52 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 ARABIA. 
 
 O'er Arabia's desert sands 
 
 The patient camel walks, 
 ' Mid lonely caves and rocky lands 
 
 The fell hyena stalks. 
 On her cool and shady hills 
 
 Coffee-shrubs and tam'rinds grow, 
 Headlong fall the welcome rills 
 
 Down the fruitless dells below. 
 
 The fragrant myrrh and healing balm 
 
 Perfume the passing gale ; 
 Thick hung with dates the spreading palm 
 
 Tow'rs o'er the peopled vale. 
 Locusts oft, a living cloud, 
 
 Hover in the darkened air, 
 Like a torrent dashing loud, 
 
 Bringing famine and despair 
 
 A i kin. 
 
 Faint and athirst in arid wastes astray, 
 Wandered an Arab, parted from his band, 
 
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 Who reached an herbless spot at close of day, 
 Where cooling moisture rose amid the sand. 
 
 Though weak and weary, to his armpits deep 
 The pilgrim scooped the sand that wetter grew; 
 
 Then, hopeful, laid him down to rest and sleep, 
 And round his aching limbs his mantle drew. 
 
 At early morn, with trembling form he rose, 
 
 And lo! the basin he at twilight made 
 Mirrored the sun ! and strengthened by repose 
 He quaffed the fountain, and his thirst al- 
 layed. 
 " Allah be praised!" he cried, with bounding 
 
 heart 
 
 And from his scanty store of dates he ate ; 
 Both man and beast, with strength renewed, 
 
 depart, 
 
 And reach their tribe where shifting sands 
 abate. 
 
 George Bancroft Griffith. 
 
 AUSTRALIA. 
 
 There is a land where Summer skies 
 Are gleaming with a thousand dyes, 
 
54 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 .Blending in witching harmonies ; 
 And grassy knoll and forest height 
 Are flushing in the rosy light, 
 And all above is azure bright, 
 
 Australia ! 
 
 THE PALM-TREE. 
 
 Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm, 
 
 On the Indian sea by the Isles of balm ? 
 
 Or is it a ship in the breezeless calm? 
 
 A ship whose keel is of palm beneath, 
 Whose ribs of palm have a palm-bark sheath, 
 And a rudder of palm it steereth with. 
 
 Branches of palm are its spars and rails, 
 Fibres of palm are its woven sails, 
 And the rope is of palm that idly trails. 
 
 What does the good ship bear so w r ell ? 
 The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, 
 And the milky sap of its inner cell. 
 
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 55 
 
 What are its jars, so smooth and fine, 
 
 But hollowed tints, filled with oil and wine, 
 
 And the cabbage that ripens under the Line? 
 
 The master he sits on a palm- in at soft, 
 From a beaker of palm his drink is quaffed, 
 And a palm-thatch shields from the sun aloft. 
 
 His dress is woven of palmy strands, 
 
 And he holds a palm-leaf scroll in his hands, 
 
 Traced with the Prophet's wise commands. 
 
 The turban folded about his head 
 
 Was daintily wrought of the palm-leaf braid, 
 
 And the fan that cools him of palm was made. 
 
 Of threads of palm was the carpet spun 
 Whereon he kneels when the day is done, 
 And the foreheads of Islam are bowed as one ! 
 
 To him the palm is a gift divine, 
 Wherein all uses of man combine, 
 House, and raiment, and food, and wine. 
 
56 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 4 'Allah il Allah!" he sings his psalm, 
 On the Indian sea, by the Isles of balm ; 
 "Thanks to Allah who gives the palm!" 
 
 Whittier, 
 
 THE CORAL GROVE. 
 
 Deep in the wave is a coral grove, 
 Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove ; 
 Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, 
 That never are wet with the falling dew ; 
 But in bright and changeful beauty .shine, 
 Far down in the green and glassy brine. 
 The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, 
 
 And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty-snow ; 
 From coral rocks the sea-plants lift 
 
 Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow; 
 The water is calm and still below, 
 
 For the winds and waves are absent there, 
 And the sands are bright as the stars that glow 
 
 In the motionless fields of upper air ; 
 There, with its waving blade of green, 
 
 The sea-flag streams through the silent water, 
 
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 And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen 
 
 To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter ; 
 There with a light and easy motion, 
 
 The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea ; 
 And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean 
 
 Are bending like corn on the upland lea : 
 And life in rare and beautiful forms 
 
 Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, 
 And is safe, when the wrathful spirit of storms 
 
 Has made the top of the waves his own. 
 
 J. G. PercivaL 
 BANQUET TO THE CHINESE EMBASSY. 
 
 (Selected.} 
 
 Builders of the mighty wall, 
 Bid your mountain barriers fall ! 
 So may the girdle of the sun 
 Bind the East and West in one, 
 
 Till Mount Shasta' s breezes fan 
 The snowy peaks of Ta Siene Shan 
 Till Erie blends its waters blue 
 With the waves of Tung-Ting-Hu, 
 Till deep Missouri lends its flow 7 
 To swell the rushing Hoang-Ho ! 
 
 Holmes. 
 
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 CREATION. 
 
 The spacious firmament on high, 
 
 With all the blue ethereal sky, 
 
 And spangled Heavens, a shining frame, 
 
 Their great Original proclaim. 
 
 The unwearied sun, from day to day, 
 
 Does his Creator's power display, 
 
 And publishes to every land 
 
 The work of an Almighty hand. 
 
 Soon as the evening shades prevail 
 The moon takes up the wondrous tale, 
 And nightly to the listening earth 
 Repeats the story of her birth ; 
 Whilst all the stars that round her burn, 
 And all the planets in their turn, 
 Confirm the tidings as they roll, 
 And spread the truth from pole to pole. 
 
 What, though in solemn silence all 
 Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; 
 
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 What, though no real voice or sound 
 Amidst their radiant orbs be found, 
 In reason's ear they all rejoice, 
 And utter forth a glorious voice, 
 Forever singing as they shine, 
 ' k The hand that made us is Divine." 
 
 Addis on. 
 
 PART THREE. 
 
 ILLUSTRATIVE TOUR. 
 TO THE TEACHER: 
 
 We would suggest that the following selections be care- 
 fully learned, each in its place, as the study of countries 
 progresses. 
 
 As arranged, they are designed to afford the pupils an 
 enjoyable and profitable review. They may also suggest 
 to the teacher a method of combining and adapting other 
 selections to the study of geography. Of course, a globe 
 or map of the world is indispensable. 
 
 Believing that the true study of any branch will awaken 
 an interest in the pursuit of knowledge, we would advise 
 that some members of the class be directed to furnish a 
 few interesting facts concerning the most noted authors. 
 This part of the exercise, however, should not be so intro- 
 duced as to break the continuity of the whole tour. 
 
60 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 First Pupil : 
 
 Shall we in imagination, through the eyes of poets, 
 catch glimpses of foreign lands ? 
 
 While fancy, like the fingers of a clock, 
 Runs the great circuit and is still at home. 
 
 Cowper. 
 Second Pupil : 
 
 L,et others traverse sea and land, 
 And toil through various climes, 
 
 I turn the world round with my hand, 
 Reading these poets' rhymes. 
 
 From them I learn whatever lies 
 
 Beneath each changing zone, 
 And see, when looking with their eyes, 
 
 Better than with mine own. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
 Third Pupil : 
 
 Leaving some eastern port of the United States, we 
 may embark in "The Steamship" of Holmes's fancy: 
 
 See how yon flaming herald treads 
 The ridged and rolling waves. 
 
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 Fourth Pupil : 
 
 Or we may be borne across the wild Atlantic with 
 Southey, 
 
 She comes, majestic with her swelling sails, 
 The gallant bark ! 
 
 Now floating at their length the streamers play 
 And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze. 
 
 Fifth Pupil : 
 
 Sail on, ye stately ships, 
 
 And with your floating bridge, the ocean span ; 
 Be yours to bring man nearer unto man ! 
 
 Longfellow. 
 Sixth Pupil : 
 
 Where lies the land to which the ship would 
 go? 
 
 Arthur Hugh C lough. 
 Seventh Pupil : 
 
 All hail, thou noble land, 
 Our Fathers' native soil ! 
 
 O stretch thy mighty hand 
 
 Gigantic grown by toil, 
 O'er the vast Atlantic wave to our shore ! 
 
 Washington Allston. 
 
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 Eighth Pupil : 
 
 In Liverpool, the good old town, we miss 
 
 The grand old relics of a reverend past 
 Cathedrals, shrines, that pilgrims come to kiss. 
 
 Robert Lcighton. 
 
 Ninth Pupil : 
 
 And now we hasten to the L/ake Region of the North 
 and look down upon 
 
 THE ROTHA RIVER. 
 
 Lovelier river there is none 
 Underneath an English sun ; 
 From its source it issues bright 
 Upon hoar Helvellyn's height, 
 Flowing where its Summer voice 
 Makes the mountain herds rejoice. 
 
 Southey. 
 
 Tenth Pupil : 
 
 I climbed the dark brow of the mighty Hel- 
 
 vellyn, 
 Lakes and mountains gleamed misty and wide ; 
 
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 On the right, Striden-edge round the Red-tarn 
 
 was bending, 
 And Catchedecam its left verge was defending. 
 
 Scott. 
 Eleventh Pupil : 
 
 O Caledonia ! stern and wild, 
 
 Meet nurse for a poetic child ! 
 
 L,and of brown heath and shaggy wood ; 
 
 lyand of the mountain and the flood ! 
 
 Scott. 
 Twelfth Pupil : 
 
 One burnished sheet of living gold 
 Loch Katrine lay beneath him rolled. 
 High on the south, huge Ben-Venue 
 Down on the lake, in masses, threw 
 Crags, knolls and mounds 
 While on the north through middle air, 
 Ben- An heaved high his forehead bare. 
 
 Scott. 
 Thirteenth Pupil : 
 
 Farewell to bonnie Teviotdale 
 And Cheviot's mountains blue. 
 
 Pringle. 
 
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 Fourteenth Pupil : 
 
 The stately homes of England 
 How beautiful they stand ! 
 
 Amidst their tall ancestral trees, 
 O'er all the pleasant land. 
 
 Mrs. Hemans. 
 
 Fifteenth Pupil : 
 
 It is a goodly sight through the clear air 
 
 From Hampstead's heathy height to see at once 
 
 England's vast capital in fair expanse 
 
 Towers, belfries, lengthened streets 
 
 Saint Paul's high dome, amid the vassal band 
 
 Of neighboring spires, a regal chieftain stands ; 
 
 And over hills of ridgy roofs, appear 
 
 In kindred grace, like twain of sisters dear, 
 
 The towers of Westminster, her Abbey's pride. 
 
 Joanna Bail lie. 
 
 Sixteenth Pupil : 
 
 Next comes those neighbors twain, 
 
 Fair, fickle, courtly France, and sombre Spain. 
 
 R. H. Stoddard. 
 
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 Seventeenth Pupil : 
 
 I love that deep dark river, 
 The swiftly flowing Rhine ; 
 
 I love it for its legends, 
 I love it for its wine. 
 
 I love it for its forests 
 
 Of firs and silver pines, 
 Its mountains crowned with ruins, 
 
 Its richly laden vines. 
 
 George Browning. 
 
 Eighteenth Pupil : 
 
 Bayard Taylor relates, in his famous book, "Views 
 Afoot," that the streets of Cologne are very dirty. The 
 fact is also well expressed in rhyme, 
 
 The River Rhine, it is well known, 
 Doth wash your city of Cologne ; 
 But tell me, nymphs ! what power divine 
 Shall henceforth wash the River Rhine? 
 
 Coleridge. 
 
66 ROUND THE: WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 Nineteenth Pupil : 
 
 Let us hasten on to Switzerland and view majestic 
 mountains, rushing rivers, and fair lakes. 
 
 Girt round with rugged mountains, 
 The fair Lake Constance lies, 
 
 In her blue heart reflected 
 Shine back the starry skies. 
 
 Adelaide A. Procter. 
 Twentieth Pupil : 
 
 On Alpine heights the love of God is shed ; 
 He paints the morning red, 
 The flowerets white and blue, 
 And feeds them with his dew. 
 
 ALL. 
 On Alpine heights a loving Father dwells. 
 
 Twenty-first Pupil : 
 
 Down Alpine heights the silvery streamlets flow ; 
 There the bold chamois go ; 
 On giddy crags they stand 
 And drink from his own hand. 
 
 ALL. 
 On Alpine heights a loving Father dwells. 
 
 Translated from the German by C. T. Brooks. 
 
OF I 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
 ROUND THE: WORIvD WITH THE POETS. 67 
 Twenty-second Pupil : 
 
 Mount Blanc is the monarch of mountains, 
 
 They crowned him long ago 
 On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, 
 
 With a diadem of snow. 
 
 Byron. 
 Twenty-third Pupil : 
 
 Leaving the land of the Alps we journey through Italy, 
 and our first thought is of Rome, 
 
 She sits among the eternal hills, 
 
 Their crown thrice glorious and dear, 
 Her voice is as a thousand tongues 
 
 Of silver fountains, gurgling clear ; 
 She rules the age by Beauty's power, 
 As once she ruled by armed might. 
 Awe strikes the traveller when he sees 
 
 The vision of her distant dome, 
 And a strange spasm wrings his heart 
 
 As the guide whispers, " There is Rome ! M 
 
 Twenty-fourth Pupil: 
 
 There is a glorious city in the sea. 
 The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, 
 Ebbing and flowing, and the salt sea-weed 
 Clings to the marble of her palaces. 
 
68 ROUND THE WORI.D WITH THK POETS. 
 
 No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, 
 
 Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the sea, 
 
 Invisible : and from the land we went 
 
 As to a floating city, steering in 
 
 And gliding up her streets as in a dream, 
 
 So smoothly, silently. 
 
 Samuel Rogers. 
 
 Twenty-fifth Pupil . 
 
 GREECE. 
 
 Land of bards and heroes, hail ! 
 
 Land of gods and god-like men. 
 Thine were hearts that could not quail, 
 
 Earth was glorious then ; 
 Thine were souls that dared be free ; 
 Power, and fame, and liberty. 
 
 / G. PercivaL 
 Twenty-sixth Pupil : 
 
 Hail Egypt ! land of ancient pomp and pride, 
 Where Beauty walks by hoary Ruin's side ; 
 Where Plenty reigns, and still the seasons smile, 
 And rolls rich gift of God ! exhaustless Nile. 
 Land of the pyramid and temple lone ! 
 
 Nicholas MichelL 
 
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 69 
 Twenty-seventh Pupil : 
 
 Mysterious flood that through the silent sands 
 Hast wandered century on century, 
 
 Watering the length of green Egyptian lands, 
 Which were not but for thee, - 
 
 Thou givest blessings as a god might give, 
 Whose being is his bounty : from the slime 
 
 Shaken from off thy skirts the nations live, 
 Through all the years of Time. 
 
 Bayard Taylor 
 Twenty-eighth Pupil : 
 
 Ye zones so strange and wondrous ! 
 
 Thy forests dark, and deserts 
 
 Are present to my view ; 
 Thy feathery palms are mirrored 
 
 In lakes of deepest blue ; 
 The wild beasts' roar is sounding 
 
 From cleft and cavern black, 
 With heavy bales and costly 
 
 The Arab loads his camel's back. 
 
70 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 Twenty-ninth Pupil : 
 
 There, too, the curly negro 
 
 Gold dust in rivers seeks, 
 And there Mount Atlas gravely 
 
 Rears heaven-supporting peaks. 
 
 A Translation. 
 Thirtieth Pupil : 
 
 All around 
 
 To the bound 
 
 Of the vast horizon's round 
 
 All sand, sand, sand. 
 On my camel's hump I ride, 
 As he sways from side to side 
 With an awkward step of pride, 
 
 And his shaggy head uplifted, and his eye 
 
 so long and bland, 
 Not a sound 
 All around, 
 Save the padded beat and bound 
 
 Of the feet of the camel on the sand, 
 
 O'er the yellow thirsty desert, so desolately 
 grand. 
 
 W. W. Story. 
 
ROUND THE WORL,D WITH THE POETS. 71 
 Thirty-first Pupil : 
 
 Dim longings draw me on and point my path 
 To Eastern sands, to Shem's deserted shore, 
 The cradle of the world. 
 
 Alphonse dc Lamartint. 
 
 Thirty-second Pupil : 
 
 See how from far upon the eastern road, 
 The star-led wizards haste with odors sweet. 
 
 But peaceful was the night 
 Wherein the Prince of Light 
 
 His reign of peace upon the earth began. 
 
 Milton. 
 Thirty-third Pupil : 
 
 When Jordan hushed his waters still, 
 
 And silence slept on Zion's hill, 
 
 When Bethlehem's shepherds, thro' the night, 
 
 Watched o'er their flocks by starry light. 
 
 Campbell. 
 Thirty-fourth Pupil : 
 
 Persia ! time-honored land ! who looks on thee, 
 A desert yet a Paradise will see ; 
 
72 ROUND THK WORI^D WITH THK POKTS. 
 
 Vast chains of hills where not a shrub appears, 
 Wastes where 110 dews distil their diamond- tears. 
 
 Anon 
 
 Pomegranates hang their rich fruit in the sun ; 
 Grapes turn to purple many a rock's tall brow, 
 And globes of gold adorn the citron's bough. 
 
 Nicholas MichelL 
 Thirty-fifth Pupil : 
 
 Vast are the shores of India's wealthful soil ; 
 Here down the wastes of Taurus rocky side 
 Two infant rivers pour the crystal tide, 
 
 Indus the one, and one the Ganges named ; 
 
 Between these streams fair smiling to the day, 
 The Indian lands their wide domain display, 
 And many a league far to the south they bend 
 From the broad region where the rivers end, 
 Till where the shores to Ceylon's isle oppose, 
 In conic form the Indian regions close. 
 
 Thirty-sixth Pupil : 
 
 What shall we call 
 
 This Curious One who builded a great wall, 
 
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 73 
 
 That rivers crossing, skirting mountain steeps, 
 Did not keep out but let in the invader? 
 With twinkling almond eyes and little feet, 
 She tottered hither from her fields of flowers, 
 From where Pekin uplifts its pictured towers, 
 And from the markets where her merchants 
 
 meet, 
 And barter with the world 
 
 A\ H. Stoddard. 
 Thirty-seventh Pupil : 
 
 Cradled and rocked in the Eastern seas 
 The Islands of the Japanese 
 Beneath me lie ; o'er lake and plain 
 The stork, the heron, and the crane, 
 Through the clear realms of azure drift ; 
 And on the hillsides I can see 
 The villages of Imari. 
 
 Thirty-eighth Pupil : 
 
 All the bright flowers that fill the land, 
 Ripple of waves on rock or sand, 
 The snow on Fusiyama's cone, 
 The midnight heaven so thickly sown 
 
74 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 With constellations of bright stars, 
 
 The leaves that rustle, the reeds that make 
 
 A whisper by each stream and lake, 
 
 Are painted on these lovely jars ; 
 
 The counterfeit and counterpart 
 Of Nature reproduced in Art. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
 Thirty-ninth Pupil : 
 
 To complete the circuit of the world, we leave Japan 
 aiid launch upon the broad Pacific. 
 
 The sunset sea! the noblest and the broadest 
 Of all the oceans girdling wave- washed earth ; 
 The calmest, gentlest, yet at times the mad- 
 dest. 
 In raving paroxysms of stormy mirth. 
 
 Henry M or ford. 
 
 Fortieth Pupil: 
 
 The long journey across the broad Pacific is made 
 bright by 
 
 THE MEETING OF THE SHIPS. 
 
 When o'er the silent seas alone 
 
 For days and nights we've cheerless gone, 
 
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 75 
 
 Oh, they who've felt it know how sweet, 
 Some sunny morn, a sail to meet. 
 
 Sparkling on deck is every eye, 
 ''Ship ahoy! ship ahoy!" our joyful cry; 
 While answering back the sounds we hear ; 
 1 * Ship ahoy ! ship ahoy ! ' ' what cheer ? what 
 cheer ? 
 
 Then sails are backed, we nearer come, 
 Kind words are said of friends at home ; 
 And soon, too soon, we part with pain, 
 To sail o'er silent seas again. 
 
 Moore. 
 
 Forty-first Pupil : 
 
 And now, at last, as we enter the ''Golden Gate," our 
 hearts are thrilled, and our lips pour forth the patriot's 
 boast 
 
 We know thee still when all is said, 
 The best and dearest spot on earth. 
 
 Whit tier. 
 
 Forty-second Pupil : 
 
 CALIFORNIA. 
 
 No more thou sittest on thy tawny hills 
 In indolent repose ; 
 
76 ROUND THK WORLD WITH TH 
 
 Or pourest the crystal of a thousand rills 
 Down from thy house of snows. 
 
 But where the wild- oats wrapped thy knees in 
 
 gold, 
 
 The ploughman drives his share, 
 And where through canons deep thy streams 
 
 are rolled, 
 The miner's arm is bare. 
 
 Bayard Taylor. 
 Forty-third Pupil : 
 
 Afar the bright Sierras lie 
 A swaying line of snowy white, 
 A fringe of heaven hung in sight 
 
 Against the blue base of the sky. 
 
 Joaqnin Miller. 
 
 Forty-fourth Pupil : 
 
 THE GARDKN OF THK GODS. 
 
 Beneath the rocky peak that hides 
 In clouds its snow-flecked crest, 
 
 Within these crimson crags, abides 
 An Orient in the West. 
 
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 77 
 
 Here the New West its wealth unlocks 
 
 And tears the veil aside, 
 Which hides the mystic glades and rocks 
 
 The Red Man deified. 
 
 With torrents wild and tempests blast, 
 
 And fierce volcanic fires, 
 In secret moulds has Nature cast 
 
 Her monoliths and spires. 
 
 Forty-fifth Pupil : 
 
 THE PRAIRIES. 
 
 The skies are blue above my head, 
 
 The prairie green below, 
 And flickering o'er the tufted grass 
 
 The shifting shadows go. 
 
 Far in the east like low hung clouds 
 
 The waving woodlands lie ; 
 Far in the west the glowing plain 
 
 Melts warmly in the sky. 
 
 John Hay. 
 
78 ROUND THK WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 Forty-sixth Pupil : 
 
 Here the Father Mississippi half a hundred 
 
 fathoms deep ; 
 In his plash a hundred rivers still their fretful 
 
 murmurs keep, 
 In his mighty bosom nestling, twice a thousand 
 
 brooklets sleep ; 
 
 Gathered here the countless waters, half of all 
 
 a continent, 
 Seething like a serpent writhing, all an 
 
 awful volume blent. 
 
 Forty-seventh Pupil : 
 
 MAMMOTH CAVK. 
 
 God's hand, 
 At the creation, hollowed out this vast 
 
 Domain of darkness, where no herb nor 
 
 flower 
 Ere sprang amid the sands, nor dews nor 
 
 rains, 
 Nor blessed sunbeams fell with freshening 
 
 power, 
 
 Nor gentle breeze its Eden message told 
 Amid the dreadful gloom. 
 
 ^George D. Prentice. 
 
ROUND THE WORI^D WITH THE POETS. 79 
 Forty-eighth Pupil : 
 
 BUTE RIDGE, VA. 
 
 Here let us pause by the lone eagle's nest, 
 And breathe the golden sunlight and sweet 
 
 air, 
 Which gird and gladden all this region fair, 
 
 With a perpetual benison of rest ; 
 
 Say hast thou ever gazed on aught more fair 
 In Europe or the Orient ? 
 
 Paul Hamilton Hayne. 
 
 Forty-ninth Pupil : 
 
 THE AU.EGHANY MOUNTAINS. 
 
 Wild, endless chain ! that rising in the North, 
 Where stout St. L,awreiice heaves his waters 
 
 forth, 
 Pursues its devious course, firm bas'd and 
 
 high, 
 
 Dark barrier of the East and Western sky, 
 And knits the sister states in one great band. 
 
80 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 Fiftieth Pupil : 
 
 NIAGARA. 
 
 Flow on forever, in the glorious robe 
 Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on 
 Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set 
 His rainbow on thy forehead ; and the cloud 
 Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give 
 Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him 
 Eternally. / 
 
 Lydia H. Sigourney. 
 
 Fifty-first Pupil : 
 
 NEW ENGLAND. 
 
 Borne on Imagination's buoyant wings 
 Again I view thy groves, thy hills, thy springs ; 
 Thy coy, reluctant, but relenting soil, 
 Woo'd and subdued by persevering toil 
 Thy various coast ; where frowns the rocky 
 
 shore, 
 Where the rude breakers beat with ceaseless 
 
 roar. 
 
 Washington Irving. 
 
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THK POKTS. 8 1 
 Fifty-second Pupil: 
 
 Upon our loftiest White Mountain peak, 
 Filled with the freshness of untainted SLIT- 
 
 We sat, nor cared to listen or to speak 
 To one another, for the silence there 
 
 Was eloquent with God's presence. 
 
 Blown 
 
 Apart before us, a dissolving wreath 
 Of cloud framed in a picture on the air ; 
 
 The fair long Saco Valley, whence we came; 
 The hills and lakes of Ossipee ; and there 
 Glimmers the sea ! Some pleasant well- 
 known name 
 
 With every break to memory hastens back ; 
 Monadnock, Winnipesaukee, Merrimack. 
 
 Lucy Larcom. 
 Fifty-third Pupil : 
 
 O land of lands ! to thee we give 
 
 Our prayers, our hopes, our service free ; 
 
 For thee thy sons shall nobly live, 
 And at thy need shall die for thee ! 
 
 Whittier. 
 At the close, have the pupils sing AMERICA. 
 
82 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 PART FOUR. 
 
 There are many longer poems of great value in the 
 study of geography, but which the pupils cannot be ex- 
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 some one of these longer poems, introducing the names 
 of many and distant places which the pupils may be 
 requested to locate immediately, adding any important 
 facts that may be known regarding them. 
 
 Selections for work of this character can be found in 
 the poems comprised in the following list. This list is 
 intended to be suggestive only, and every teacher can 
 add to it the titles of many favorite poems, especially 
 local poems, which, oftentimes, can be made serviceable 
 in the work on local geography. The few selections fol- 
 lowing the list will afford a clearer idea of the value and 
 wide scope of this exercise. 
 
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 blumen " (Celia Thaxter). 
 
 THE BELLS OF SHANDON. 
 
 With deep affection 
 And recollection, 
 
ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 83 
 
 I often think of those Shandon bells, 
 Whose sounds so wild would, 
 In the days of childhood, 
 Fling round my cradle their magic spells. 
 
 On this I ponder 
 
 Where'er I wander, 
 And thus grow fonder, sweet Cork, of thee, 
 
 With thy bells of Shandon, 
 
 That sound so grand, on 
 The pleasant waters of the river L,ee. 
 
 I 've heard bells tolling 
 
 Old Adrian's Mole in, 
 Their thunder rolling from the Vatican ; 
 
 And cymbals glorious 
 
 Swinging uproarious 
 In the gorgeous turrets of Notre Dame ; 
 
 But thy sounds were sweeter 
 Than the dome of Peter 
 
84 ROUND THE WORLD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 FlingvS o'er the Tiber, pealing solemnly. 
 
 Oh, the bells of Shandon 
 
 Sound far more grand, on 
 The pleasant waters of the river Lee. 
 
 There's a bell in Moscow; 
 
 Where, on tower and kiosk O 
 In Saint Sophia the Turkman gets, 
 
 And loud in air 
 
 Calls men to prayer, 
 From the tapering summits of tall minarets. 
 
 Such empty phantom 
 
 I freely grant them ; 
 But there 's an anthem more dear to me : 
 
 'Tis the bells of Shandon, 
 
 That sound so grand, on 
 The pleasant waters of the river L,ee. 
 
 Francis Mahoney. 
 
 THE GATE OF TEARS. 
 
 (Selected.} 
 
 We cruised among the Cyclades, 
 And visited the Cingalese, 
 
ROUND THE: WORLD WITH THE POETS. 85 
 
 And lingered at the Isle of Man. 
 We crossed the Himalayan slopes, 
 
 And climbed the Mountains of the Moon ; 
 We trod Peruvian bridge of ropes, 
 
 And lowland dyke and Danish dune ; 
 We sailed the great Australian Bight, 
 
 We basked awhile on tropic shores, 
 
 We pulled the daring whaler's oars, 
 And lost ourselves in Arctic night. 
 On Orinoco's tangled banks 
 
 The chattering monkeys mocked our quest, 
 And in the red man's straggling ranks 
 
 We thrid the rivers of the West ; 
 We followed up the Niger's course 
 
 And all the Dnieper's muddy miles, 
 And where Ontario's waters force 
 
 St. Lawrence through his Thousand Isles. 
 
 Rossiter Johnson. 
 
 THE STARTING SHIPS. 
 
 Yon ships now rocking in the bay, 
 Their pennons to the breeze unfurled, 
 
86 ROUND THE WORU3 WITH THE POETS. 
 
 Ere long will cleave their trackless way, 
 Across the wide and watery world. 
 
 Some for Golconda's golden strand, 
 
 And Indus' shore their course will urge ; 
 
 And some for Ceylon's spicy land, 
 
 Will breast the billows' boiling surge; 
 
 While some, their snowy sails will rest, 
 
 Where the proud Moslem rears his crest ! 
 
 Some for far Lapland's wintry plains, 
 Will brave the iceberg-mountains hoar ; 
 
 Some where eternal Summer reigns, 
 
 Will touch the far East's glowing shore, 
 
 While from Italia's myrtle bowers, 
 
 Some will bring music's witching powers. 
 
 Some from the golden orange groves, 
 Of Tagus' banks their barks will fill; 
 
 Others, the perfume beauty loves, 
 Which fair Arabia's gums distil 
 
 Will bring, to give our colder clime, 
 
 The fragrance that ne'er stales by time. 
 
 M. C. Wilson. 
 
OF 
 
 ( TJNIVERS 
 
 X*f CA[7FO* 
 
 ROUND THK WORL,D WITH THE) POKTS. 87 
 THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 
 
 (From tJte Swedish.} 
 
 When the sun fiercely glows on the Nile's 
 
 sandy shore, 
 And the shade of the palm-trees protects us no 
 
 more, 
 
 One feeling unites us, and hurries us forth, 
 To the land of our fathers, the North, to the 
 
 North ! 
 
 But when o'er the mountains the Son of the 
 
 Storm, 
 Shaking snow from his pinions, displays his 
 
 dark form, 
 When the rowan tree's red, the hare white as 
 
 snow, 
 Then away to the South, to the South let us 
 
 THE SWALLOW. 
 
 Swallow ! that on rapid wing 
 Sweep' st along in sportive ring, 
 Could I skim away with thee 
 Over land and over sea, 
 
88 ROUND THE WORIvD WITH THE POETS. 
 
 What streams would flow, what cities rise, 
 
 What landscapes dance before mine eyes ! 
 
 First from England's southern shore 
 
 'Cross the channel we would soar, 
 
 And our venturous course advance 
 
 To the lively plains of France ; 
 
 Sport among the feathered choir 
 
 On the verdant banks of Loire, 
 
 Skim Garonne's majestic tide, 
 
 Where Bordeaux adorns his side ; 
 
 Cross the towering Pyrenees, 
 
 'Mid orange groves and myrtle- trees ; 
 
 Entering then the wild domain 
 
 Where wolves prowl round the flocks of Spain, 
 
 Where silk-worms spin, and olives grow, 
 
 And mules plod surely on and slow. 
 
 Steering then for many a day 
 
 Far to south our course away, 
 
 From Gibraltar's rocky steep, 
 
 Dashing o'er the foaming deep, 
 
 On sultry Afric's fruitful shore 
 
 We'd rest at length our journey o'er. 
 
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