THE

STAR RECITER.

AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN.

ALL hail! thou noble land,

Our fathers' native soil!
O stretch thy mighty hand,
Gigantic grown by toil,

O'er the vast Atlantic wave, to our shore,
For thou, with magic might,
Canst reach to where the light
Of Phoebus travels bright
The world o'er.

The genius of our clime,

From his pine-embattled steep,
Shall hail the great sublime;

While the Tritons of the deep,

With their conchs, the kindred league shall proclaim.
Then let the world combine-
O'er the main our naval line,
Like the milky-way shall shine,
Bright in fame.

Though ages long have passed

Since our fathers left their home,

Their pilot in the blast,

O'er untravelled seas to roam;

Yet lives the blood of England in our veins
And shall we not proclaim
That blood of honest fame,
Which no tyranny can tame
By its chains?

While the language free and bold
Which the bard of Avon sung,
In which our Milton told

How the vault of heaven rung,
When Satan, blasted, fell with his host;
While thus with reverence meet
Ten thousand echoes greet,
From rock to rock repeat
Round our coast;

While the manners, while the arts,
That moved a nation's soul,
Still cling around our hearts,
Between let ocean roll,

Our joint communion breaking with the sun :
Yet, still from either beach
The voice of blood shall reach,

More audible than speech,
"We are one!"

Washington Allston.

POLONIUS'S ADVICE TO HIS SON, LAERTES.

GIVE thy thoughts no tongue,

Nor any unproportioned thought his act;
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;

And they in France, of the best rank and station,
Are most select and generous, chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;