TO BRITAIN. (MONTGOMERY.) James Montgomery was born at Irvine in Ayrshire in 1771. When only twelve years old he commenced to write poems; and after a short residence in London as assistant to a bookseller, he became editor of a newspaper in Sheffield. For articles in this paper which were considered seditious he was twice imprisoned. During these periods he occupied his time in writing poems, which were afterwards published under the title of Prison Amusements.' His chief works are- The World before the Flood,'' Greenland,' 'The Pelican Island,' and a collection of hymns. He received a pension of 150l. a year from the Government in 1846, which he enjoyed till his death in 1854. 6 I LOVE thee, O my native isle ! Dear as my mother's earliest smile, Sweet as my father's voice to me, Is all I hear and all I see. When glancing o'er thy beauteous land, In all their sufferings, all their fame : Down history's lengthening, widening way, |