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...themselves to us. The first specimen that came up, was the following address " To the Past." " Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy...reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sulleuness and gloom, And glorious ages gone, Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with...

...themselves to us. The first specimen that came up, was the following address " To the Pant." " Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy...And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreatliiug reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious...

...Hold all that enter tby unbreathing reign. Far in tby realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sulleimess and gloom, And glorious ages gone, Lie deep within the shadow of tby womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age, that draws us to the ground, And last,...

...strains of one of the poets of our own land :* Far in thy realms withdrawn Old empires sit in sullermess and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. In thy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown. To thee Earth's wonder and her pride Are gathered,...

...man of the purest taste that England can now call her own. " TO THE PAST. " Thou ! unrelenting past 1 Strong are the barriers, round thy dark domain, And...Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. " Far in tby realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within...

...a poem of fourteen quatrains — three feet and four alternately. In the second quatrain, the lines And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb are, to us, disagreeable. Such images are common, but at best, repulsive. In the present case there...

...of one of the poets of our own land : f • * Rulentem diccre vcrum Hon. f Bryant. Far in thy realms withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom,...ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. In thy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown. To thee Earth's wonder and her pride Are gathered,...

...cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of quoting a few of its stanzas : "Thou unrelenting Past I Stroug arc the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters sure and fast Hold nil that enter thy nnbrealhing reign. " Far in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullennesa and...