LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

  John Greenleaf Whittier
    Photogravure from a life-photograph by Notman, Boston.

  Queen Elizabeth knighting Francis Drake
    “When our Drake has the luck to make their pride duck. 
      And stoop to the lads of the Island!”

    From engraving after the drawing by Sir John Gilbert, R.A.

  William Watson
    After a life-photograph by Elliott and Fry, London.

  Samuel Francis smith
    After a life-photograph by Notman, Boston.

  Thomas Campbell
    From an engraving after the portrait by James Lonsdale.

  William Cowper
    From an engraving.

  The author’s first singing of the Marseillaise
    “To arms! to arms! ye brave! 
    The avenging sword unsheathe.”

From a photogravure after the painting by J.A.A.  Pils.

A cavalry charge
“My darling! ah, the glass is out! 
The bullets ring, the riders shout—­
No time for wine or sighing! 
There! bring my love the shattered glass—­
Charge!  On the foe!  No joys surpass
Such dying!”

From photogravure by Goupil, after a painting
by Edouard Detaille.

NATHAN HALE
“’Neath the blue morn, the sunny morn,
He dies upon the tree,
And he mourns that he can lose
But one life for liberty.”

    From photograph of the Statue by Frederick
    Macmonnies, in New York City Hall Park.

  EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN
    After a photograph from life.

  THOMAS BUCHANAN READ
    After a photograph from life.

POEMS OF NATIONAL SPIRIT.

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I.

PATRIOTISM.

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WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE?

      What constitutes a state? 
  Not high-raised battlement or labored mound,
      Thick wall or moated gate;
  Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned;
      Not bays and broad-armed ports,
  Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride;
      Not starred and spangled courts,
  Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. 
      No:—­men, high-minded men,
  With powers as far above dull brutes endued
      In forest, brake, or den,
  As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude,—­
      Men who their duties know,
  But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain,
      Prevent the long-aimed blow,
  And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain;
      These constitute a State;
  And sovereign law, that State’s collected will,
    O’er thrones and globes elate
  Sits empress, crowning good, repressing