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 SONG FOR THE THRONG.
 OR, VERSIFICATION FOR THE NATION.


FIT INT.


 No. (II.-WAR-CLOUDS CLEARED AWAY.
 A Page from the History of England's Flag.
 OH, each man sharpened his blade, my boys, and each man stood to
 his gun,
 When the tidings came of a shameful wrong to the flag of England
 done;
 And it made tle blood in our bosoms boil, as it did in the days of old-
 The days of NELsoN and COLLINGWOOD, and their seamen staunch and
 bold!
 Who prated of peace, we bade him ccase-"For honour is dearer
 than life,
 And a war for our country's honour and flag, a noble and holy
 strife! "
 Could we wait till Manchester cast up her books, and counted where
 profit thrives,"
 While loving mothers were giving their sons, and brave men offered
 their lives?
 No! each man sharpened his blade, my boys,
 And each man stood to his gun;
 Had England called for their aid, my boys,
 There had vengeance swift been done!
 Not hasty to fight, but strong to smite, whenever afoe may
 brag,
 They will teach him to honour the flag, my boys,
 To honour the brave old flag!
Oli, not for this for a thousand years had that flag waved o'er the sea,
The tyrant's hate-the hope of the slave-and the beacon of the free!
Oh! not for this did our handful fleet on tie boasting Spaniard swoop !
Oh! not for this did our gallant BLAKE bid the Dutchman's pennon
 stoop!
Oh! not for this did our fathers fight 'mid the smoke and roar of the
 fray, *
When the ports ran red with the blood they shed in Trafalgar's
 famous bay!
Ohil not for this did our NELSON'S words in their inmost bosoms thrill:-
England expects-and knows-each man will do his duty still!
 So each man sharpened his blade, my boys,
 And each man stood to his gun;
 Had England called for their aid, my boys,
 There had vengeance swift been done !
 Not hasty to fight, but strong to smite, however a foe may
 brag,
 They will teach him to honour the flag, my boys,
 To honour the brave old flag !


[MARCH 1, 1&C2,


 We value peace, and we love not war-to brawl is not England's
 vice-
 But better war, we knew, than the peace to be purchased at such a
 :price
 As shame on our flag; for where'er in the world that flag to the wind
 we fling,
 A purer liberty-nobler laws-and a speech unfetter'd up-spring.
 It shall flutter yet! It shall flap abroad its grand unsullied folds,
 And the Might, that is not the Right, shall be awed when our standard
 it beholds.
 And the weak shall still be safe from the strong where that ensign
 floats o'erhead,
 As safe on the deck of England's ships as when on her soil they tread!
 And each man sharpened his blade, my boys,
 And each man stood to his gun;
 Had England called for their aid, my boys,
 There had vengeance swift been done!
 Not hasty to fight, but strong:to smite, however a foe may
 brag,
 They will teach him to honour the flag, my boys,
 To honour the brave old flag!

 But the sword was sheathed, and the cannon dumb, for atonement
 came.for wrong;
 And the threatened evil that passed away has but left our hanis
 more strong!
 For the world had thought we slumbered and slept on our fame of
 long ago;
 But now all nations under heaven-to their utmost confines--know
 That we count war's cost-dark times and hard through the length
 and breadth of the land-
 That we do not, blindly, rush upon ills that we see not nor under-
 stand,
 But we love our land with a holier love than thoughts of self can out-
 weigh,
 And will. stint for her-starve for her-die!-ere her flag and her
 honour we betray!
 And each man sharpens his blade, my boys,
 And each man stands to his gun;
 And when England calls for our aid, my boys,
 There'll be bitter vengeance done!
 Not hasty to fight, but strong to smite, whenever a foe
 may brag,
 We will teach him to'honour the flag, my boys,
 To honour the brave old flag.



 THE BOTCHERBY CORRESPONDENCE.

 To THOMAs PURTLEBOYS, Esq., Biggleswade.

 Y DEER SuR,-The Parlymen are begin-
 ning in reel ernest. On Friday, the

 15th Fibawerry, master says there
 wos a deal of torkin' though he didunt
 make his speech. MR. Cox wanted to
 be made Coxshure whether the Guy-
 mint intended to amen' the 'mis-
 reprisontashun of the people in parly-
 men, but none on 'em was sich a
 o goose as to anser. Then COLONEL
 SBILL SYKES axed if the Injuns and
 S Canada niggers might cumpcet for
 S assisting army sergins, which SnR
 $ 4r ,igl CORNWALL Louis said that the Injuns
 wasn't constooted for dokturs, and as
 for the Hethiopians, they knoo moro
 about melidies than maladies. Arter
 \ S witch there was a Irish row between
 PAT MAGUIRE an SUx ROUBUT PEAL,
and SuR RoBBsn said he had no doubt the Irish were distressed-at
what PAT said, and PAT got up and made a shindy and cawld it risin'
to order. Then there wos sum inquiry how we wos to get to the
Great Xibishun, and MR. COOPER, whose the Bored for Works, said
statee down the crooked lane and all round the square."' Whot
follerd I didunt quite undistand, but LORD L. and Co. axed sumthin
about pictures and the National Gal-by which I spose he ment Brit-
tanier. After that there was a chat about slave trade and the KING OF
DAMME who do seam a howtrageous raskel! And then sum wurds wos
dropt about a commershnl treaty with Bill-Jim, and LORD PAM, who jost


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