Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

Ah! never shall the land forget.

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.