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74 I.

LITERARY LEISURE.

II.

THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.

Up, recreant, up! Our land hath called her sons

From solitudes and cities, courts and marts,

To fight her fight, and lo! what eager hearts

Answer her call. But not with blades and guns,

But arms more keen than Europe's or the Hun's—

Reason and Truth, come they to play their parts.

Shake off the dream-world's thraldom and awake

To see thy land become regenerate,

And aid, if aid thou may'st, a work so great