...crisis wholly comparable to that which now faces us, wrote one of the greatest of Cambridge poets : ' It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...antiquity Hath flowed, with pomp of waters, unwithstood. ***** That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish, and to evil and to good Be lost...

...lofty strains of one of our truest Poets, when he told his countrymen, threateneued with invasion : — It is not to be thought of— that the flood Of British...antiquity Hath flowed with pomp of waters unwithstood — Boused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary hands— That this...

...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. LXXXVII IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...antiquity Hath flowed, 'with pomp of waters, unwithstood,' Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most famous...

...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. LXXXVII IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...Hath flowed, ' with pomp of waters, unwithstood,' Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most famous...

...TO OUR OWN TIMES. AERIDGED FROM THE POPULAR HISTOEY OF ENGLAND, THE SUPERINTENDENCE OP ITS AUTHOR. " The Flood Of British Freedom, which to the open sea...the world's praise from dark antiquity Hath flowed." WORDSWORTH. LONDON: BRADBURY & EVANS, 11, BOUYERIE STREET. 18C5. [The Right of Translation is reserved.}...

...vain, Jean; We'll meet, and aye be fain In the land o' the leal. Lady Nairn*. SONNETS TO LIBERTY. I. IT is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flow'd, " with pomp of waters unwithstood" p 210 WINE OF CYPRUS. Road by which all might come and go...

...codp, No master spirit, no determined road ! But equally a want of books and men 1 IT is not to11e thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which...dark antiquity Hath flowed, "with pomp of waters, un withstood;" Road by which all m:ght come and go that would, And bear out freights of worth to foreign...

...code, No master spirit, no determined road ; But equally a want of books and men ! BRITISH FREEDOM. IT is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea ( if the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, " with pomp of waters, unwithstood : " Road...

..." Duty ! " It was at this time thf\t Wordsworth's sonnet appeared : — 26 •» " It is not to bs thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which...antiquity Hath flowed, with ' pomp of waters unwithstood," Boused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most famous...

...trumpet. What Englishman can read, without a thrill of patriotic feeling, such sentiments as these P — " It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flow'd, 'with pomp of waters unwithstood,' — • * * « * That this most famous stream in bogs and...