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V.

HEROIC.

PATRIOTIC.-HISTORIC.- POLITICAL.

"Pallas.-See yonder souls set far within the shade,

Who in Elysian bowers the blessèd seats do keep,
That for their living good now semi-gods are made,
And went away from earth, as if but tamed with sleep.
These we must join to wake; for these are of the strain
That Justice dare defend, and will the Age sustain."

BEN JONSON: Golden Age Restored.

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Some awful moment to which Heaver has joined

Great issues, good or bad for huma kind,

Is happy as a lover; and attired With sudden brightness like a man inspired;

And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law

In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw;

Or if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need:

- He who, though thus endued as with a sense

And faculty for storm and turbulence,

Is yet a soul whose master bias leans

To homefelt pleasures and to gentle

scenes;

Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be;

Are at his heart; and such fidelity
It is his darling passion to approve;
More brave for this, that he hath
much to love:

"Tis, finally, the man, who, lifted high,

Conspicuous object in a nation's eye, Or left unthought of in obscurity, Who, with a toward or untoward lot,

Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not,

Plays, in the many games of life, that one

Where what he most doth value must be won;

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,

Nor thought of tender happiness betray;

Who, not content that former worth stand fast,

Looks forward persevering to the

last,

From well to better, daily self-surpassed:

Who, whether praise of him must walk the earth

Forever, and to noble deeds give birth,

Or he must go to dust without his fame, And leave name,

a dead, unprofitable

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