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...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...

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...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ...ines: he secretly admired a statuesque demeanour with a statue’s eyes. The national approbation of a reserved haughtiness in woman, a tempered disdain... ..., persuasive.’ ‘Does Mr. Dacier agree?’ ‘Not always. He has the inveterate national belief that Celtic blood is childish, and the consequently illogic... ...pocrisy, soundness of moral fi- bre runs throughout the country and is the national integ- rity, which may condone old sins for present service; but w... ... and have the choir of St. Catherine’s rigorously drilled in her favourite anthems was beautifully yielded to the pressure of circumstances. There lay...

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... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...f whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highl... ... of my second reception in America, and to bear my honest testimony to the national generosity and magnanimity. Also, to declare how astounded I have ... ...u were not prepared, sir ,’ said the gentle- man, ‘to behold such signs of National Prosperity as those?’ He pointed to the vessels lying at the wharv... ...abours to the prevailing taste, and of his being strictly and peculiarly a national feature of America. They walked a mile or more along a handsome st... ...he midst of a fortification of luggage, apparently performing his national anthem for the gratification of a grey-haired black man, who sat on one of ... ...every one with a lady on each arm (exactly like the chorus to the National Anthem when Royalty goes in state to the play), came gliding in—every new g...

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...e generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his c...

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... it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite a... ...gent and wide spread than it used to be; and the later development of our national literature has not, perhaps, so entirely exhausted 4 Doctor Grims... ...afford entertaining and even profitable reading to the later generation of writers whose pleasant fortune it is to charm one another and the public. I... ...st, has ventured in some manner to disregard the modern canons which debar writers from betraying towards their cre ations any warmer feeling than a ... ...rs, founded on, and arising from, different institutions; and also certain national peculiarities, which may be intrinsically as good as English pecul... ...he position of an old English gentleman, possibly to be a peer. You, whose nationality embraces that of all the world, cannot, I suppose, understand t... ...e the first to be honored,—the Queen. Then the band struck up the good old anthem, “God save the Queen,” which the whole company rose to their feet to...

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...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...name of Palm Sunday (a festival in the English church) troubled me like an anthem. “Sunday!” what was that? That was the day of peace which masked an-... ...the tumultuous organ wrought its own separate creations. And oftentimes in anthems, when the mighty instrument threw its vast columns of sound, fierce... ...s, when made vocal to the meditative heart by the truths and services of a national church, God holds with children “communion undisturbed.” Solitude,... ...y arms that moved downward to meet them. Once again arose the swell of the anthem, the burst of the hallelujah chorus, the storm, the trampling move- ... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre... ...racter of the British policy as to all external demonstrations of pomp and national pretension, and its strong opposition to that of France under corr... ...s, why, we may ask, were not the many and gorgeous jewels, achieved by the national wisdom and power in later times, adopted into the recomposed tiara...

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...with regard to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” Fr... ...y by the poet. In reality his style owed much to the seven- teenth-century writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne. He took part with Coleridge,... ...ative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much t... ...ess, of danger—over- ruled all obstacles into one steady co-operation to a national result. For my own feeling, this post-office service spoke as by s... ...onflicts of ordinary warfare, so often no more than gladiatorial trials of national prowess. The victo- ries of England in this stupendous contest ros... ...ty it was that the French domination had prospered. The mail-coach, as the national organ for publishing these mighty events, thus diffusively influen... ...l of joy, to utter themselves by other language than by tears, by restless anthems, and Te Deums reverberated from the choirs and orchestras of earth....

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...r ex- travagance. His turn for art and music began to show itself, and the anthems at St. George’s Chapel on the Sunday after- noons gave him great de... ...h Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or... ...orce’s new book, and this involved an examination of the question in other writers; but lately I have laid all controversial works aside almost entire... ...d interest in all questions of philology. Both were also readers of German writers on Church history and of critical interpretation of the New Testame... ...Yo n g e tal circumstances can confine it, it recognises no human ideas of nationality, or place, or time, but embraces like the dome of heaven all th... ...native habits, nor talk of learning, for which the giants saw no need. The national complexion here was of a lighter yellow, the costume a tat- tooed ... ...i Creator the only part that was not good, well sung, but too much like an anthem. ‘Tagalana, half-sitting, half-kneeling behind me, held the 286 Lif... ...ails. T o begin with, a man must know, and that well, Maori customs, their national feeling, &c. It is all known to One above, and that is our only ho... ... I do long sometimes for a glorious Cathedral service, for the old chants, anthems, not for “functions” and “processions,” &c. I have read Freeman’s p...

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.................................................................... 86 A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM. ............................................................. ........................................................... 86 A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM. ...................................................................... ...dness of infamy. 87 Shelley A NE A NE A NE A NE A NEW NA W NA W NA W NA W NATIONAL ANTHEM. TIONAL ANTHEM. TIONAL ANTHEM. TIONAL ANTHEM. TIONAL ANTHEM... ...infamy. 87 Shelley A NE A NE A NE A NE A NEW NA W NA W NA W NA W NATIONAL ANTHEM. TIONAL ANTHEM. TIONAL ANTHEM. TIONAL ANTHEM. TIONAL ANTHEM. Publish... ...e “Ode to the Assertors of Liberty”. He sketched also a new version of our national anthem, as addressed to Liberty. 114 V olume Two POEMS POEMS POEM... ... the Assertors of Liberty”. He sketched also a new version of our national anthem, as addressed to Liberty. 114 V olume Two POEMS POEMS POEMS POEMS P... ...s for his po- etry by associating it with the compositions of more popular writers; and also because he might feel shackled in the free expression of ...

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... the word pity; and hence, instead of saying “sympathy with another,” many writers adopt the monstrous barbarism of “sympathy for another.” 7 ably di... ...der has ever been present in a vast metropolis, on the day when some great national idol was carried in fu- neral pomp to his grave, and chancing to w... ... of the company during the earlier toasts, I overruled the call. After the national toasts had been given, the first official toast of the day was, Th... ... France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not in a political sense merely, but i... ... to read, may introduce you, that have not, to two or three dozen of these writers; of whom I can assure you beforehand that they are often profound, ... ... purpose of malice, faithfully pursued, has quartered some people upon our national funds of homage as by a perpetual annuity. Bet- ter than an inheri... ...n but God, to utter themselves by other language than by tears, by restles anthems, by reverberations rising from every choir, of the Gloria in excels...

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...ad covered her face with her hands during the passionate utterance of this anthem. “I did not even think of reproaching you, my beloved,” she said at ... ...e this. Felix, however, found in his work the same pleasure that painters, writers, architects take in their creations. He dou- bly enjoyed both the w... ...eceived illustrious artists, leading financial personages, dis- tinguished writers; but only after subjecting them to so rigid an examination that the... ...r salon, brought there by one of the wittiest, but also one of the laziest writers of that epoch, Emile Blondet, celebrated behind closed doors, highl... ...me, forgotten now like those of the Liberal, Communal, Departmental, Garde National, Federal, Impar- tial, was something in “al” that was equally impo...

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...nd the expan- sion of horror attending them, had risen to the dignity of a national interest. I may add that this interest benefited also by the myste... ...ontier), and still more when it is fought simply as a gladiator’s trial of national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our Br... ...ren of Israel. In the case of one memorable outrage by a Hebrew tribe, the national ven- geance which overtook it was complete and tearful beyond all ... ...the shal- lowest, manual of itself. And thus it happens, for example, that writers so laborious and serviceable as Birch are in any popular sense scar... ...etfulness of the realities belonging to the case, has it been possible for writers in public journals to persist in arguing national questions upon th... ...insisted on in 1800; that is, forty years earlier than any of these German writers had turned their thoughts in that direction. Had I, then, really al... ...tege moved off to the interior of the schloss, the swell of the coronation anthem rising in peals upon the ear from the choir of St. Agnes, and from t...

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...ree hundred men, part survey- ors, who were called geometricians, and part writers, who were called secretaries, were employed in this work: among tho... ... at the church of each of the four ‘scuole’, dur- ing vespers, motettos or anthems with full choruses, accom- panied by a great orchestra, and compose... ...for no other reason than because, not being a Frenchman, I had no right to national protection, and that it was a private affair between him and mysel... ...es, and of whom she produces too few for her glory. He had not the violent national passions common in his own country. The idea of vengeance could no... ...r censure; accusing me, with much bitterness, of having composed a funeral anthem. M. de Richelieu very judiciously began by informing himself who was... ... with respect to their number, he has that in common with the most insipid writers of novels who attempt to make up for the sterility of their ideas b...

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...lined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities... ...the Cage Fields, and presently extended right up the London Road. A single national school in an inconve- nient situation set itself inadequately to c... ...heart and said wicked infidel things, much disre- spect of the clergy. The anthem is tiresome!!! That men should set up to be wiser than their maker!!... ... to man’s estate and developed a more and more com- prehensive view of our national process and our national needs, I am more and more struck by the o... ...al though complex passion for Making, making widely and greatly, cit- ies, national order, civilisation, whose interplay with all those other factors ... ...of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a p... ...ut I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their feet, a new ...

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...heir readers. Historical independence has shown itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of... ... it with admirable courage and persistency. The reproaches which Calvinist writers have cast upon her are to her glory; she incurred them by reason on... ...ermanent conspiracy.” We admire the anti-social maxims put forth by daring writers; why, then, this disapproval which, in France, attaches to all soci... ...nces, which have lived in concubinage with Moors, Spaniards, and all other nationalities that adjoined them. This pure, chaste, brave, and loyal provi... ...ne dé Medici Languedoc is only Languedoc; but Touraine is France; the most national river for Frenchmen is the Loire, which waters Touraine. For this ... ...rleans. Catherine dé Medici, seeing a chance of support to her policy in a national representation, joyfully agreed to it. The cardi- nal, bent on rec... ...of the French people be- ing against the other half.” “Are we here to sing anthems to the glory of heretics,” said the Connetable, brutally. “No, but ...

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...Frederick Douglass passed through every gradation of rank comprised in our national make-up, and bears upon his person and upon his soul every thing t... ...oclivity or bent, to active toil and visible progress, are in the strictly national direction, delighting to outstrip “all creation.” Nor have the nat... ...rgive me for reminding them that the term “Caucasian” is dropped by recent writers on Ethnology; for the people about Mount Caucasus, are, and have ev... ...duct it was intended to sustain; for, besides awakening some- thing like a national interest in me, and securing me an au- dience, it brought out coun... ...and illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens...

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...elation ship. He was our faithful ally, and fell fighting as much for our national rights and immunities as for his own personal ones. We and our for... ...put it to you in full confidence of a response that shall be worthy of our national character, and calculated to increase, rather than diminish, the g... ...y remains for us, then, to decide whether we shall carry on the war in our national capacity—one united people against a common enemy—or whether some ... ...a! Ho, ho, ho! For once, Her cules acknowledges himself vanquished.” Some writers say, that Hercules gathered up the whole race of Pygmies in his lio... ...k of wild geese. Orpheus celebrated this victory by play ing a triumphant anthem on his harp, and sang so melodi ously that Jason begged him to desi...

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...ally, when he was ask’d to sing, He gave the different nations something national; ‘T was all the same to him—’God save the king,’ Or ‘Ca ir... ...e gift Of closing ‘gainst the light their orbs of vision; While gentle writers also love to lift Their voices ‘gainst each other, which is nat... ...ic Of Dido’s alphabet; and this is rational As any other notion, and not national);— Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Eight” 187 But Juan was quite ‘a... ... lie. Good people all, of every degree, Ye gentle readers and ungentle writers, In this twelfth Canto ‘t is my wish to be As serious as if... ...ularity, Reserve it) will be very sure to take. Meantime, read all the national debt sinkers, And tell me what you think of your great thinker... ...inter, The gale sweeps through its fretwork, and oft sings The owl his anthem, where the silenced quire Lie with their hallelujahs quench’d li... ...le, filter’d through her woman. But this can’t well be true, just now; for writers Are grown of the beau monde a part potential: I ‘ve seen th...

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...of the irksomeness of the long services which he was forced to attend. The anthem was interminable, and you had to stand drearily while it was being s... ...her condescending attitude towards patrio- tism he had been adopted as the national poet, and seemed since the war of seventy to be one of the most si... ...emed since the war of seventy to be one of the most significant glories of national unity. The enthusiastic seemed in the wildness of the Walpurgisnac... ...ng theology in Heidelberg, but the other theologi- cal students of his own nationality looked upon him with suspicion. He was very unorthodox, which f... ...t them out and ar- range them alphabetically according to the names of the writers. “I’ll take you to the room in which the articled clerk generally s... ... came out in The Y ellow Book.” They looked upon him, as painters often do writers, with contempt because he was a layman, with tolerance because he p... ...o oc- cupy themselves with the entertainment which is provided for them by writers, painters, and poets.” Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He h...

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...et- mirror in his hand. I thank him from my soul for not culti- vating the national cat’s whisker. None can imagine what I suffer from the oppressive ... ...tingly. The situation was exactly of a sort for one of his German phantasy-writers to image the forest jeering at him as he flew, blind, deaf, and unr... ...ncesses in England. ‘Oh! but,’ said she, ‘you are having a—shall I call it—national revenge on them? “I will take one of your princesses,” says you; a... ...ring,’ the squire bawled. ‘La! squire,’ said she, ‘why, don’t you know the National Anthem?’ ‘National Anthem, ma’am! and a fellow, a velvet-tongued— ... ...e squire bawled. ‘La! squire,’ said she, ‘why, don’t you know the National Anthem?’ ‘National Anthem, ma’am! and a fellow, a velvet-tongued— confound ...

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...n’s feet she went on turning the pages and reading biographies of bankers, writers, clergymen, sailors, surgeons, judges, professors, states- men, edi... ...she could not widen her point of view to believe that there could be great writers in existence at the present day, or if there were, that any one she... ...ked that she was still in the habit of saying Queen instead of King in the National Anthem. There was another pause. Then Miss Allan observed reflecti... ...she was still in the habit of saying Queen instead of King in the National Anthem. There was another pause. Then Miss Allan observed reflectively that...

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...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...tely liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities as ranging among the national bulwarks. It happens that the fire is hot where my Lady sits and t... ...and a half ), is the child who contributed two and nine pence to the Great National Smithers T estimonial. Francis, my third (nine), one and sixpence ... ...of man) is a choice collection of copper plate impressions from that truly national work The Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe... ...ely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr. Weevle, “because I have known writers that have gone into brewers’ houses and done really very respectabl... ...hirt sleeve. Even while he whistles his impetuosity away with the national anthem, some invol untary shakings of his head and heavings of his chest s...

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...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ... But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt. It is madness, sheer madness, to think of such a thing. Y ou... ... any time since the conclusion of the war, and 636 V anity Fair carry the national Goddem into every city of the Continent. The congregation of hat-b... ...n the street were already surrounded by per- sons smoking and drinking the national small-beer, the public rooms were in a cloud of smoke, and Mr. Jos... ...homson; Ensigns Hicks and Grady; the band on the pier playing the national anthem, and the crowd loudly cheering the gallant veterans as they went int...

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...and contributes toward placing their author in the foremost rank of French writers.” Louis de Rouvroy, who later became the Duc de Saint- 4 Saint-Sim... ...idant. M. de Noyon had furnished on my return another subject for the song-writers, and felt it the more sensibly because everybody was diverted at hi... ...e was only one remedy by which improvement could be effected; and this was National Bank- ruptcy. Had I occupied the office, I should have been too st... ...inuance of imposts, who of two evils, viz., vastly increased taxation, and national failure, would not prefer the latter. We were in the condition of ... ...by the bedsides. The King went to mass, where his musicians always sang an anthem. He did not go below—except on grand fetes or at ceremonies. Whilst ... ...y, business, no mat- ter of, what importance, no matter whether private or national, was entirely banished from view. Until the next morning ev- erybo...

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...s, Philosophie, and who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Singers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers... ...iancourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitution, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...st there used to be, some communi- cation with the interior deep; they are national Institu- tions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal In... ...ess, en- velop us: are we breaking down, then, into the black hor- rors of national bankruptcy? Great is Bankruptcy: the great bottomless gulf into wh... ...s Majesty’s, which last the livelong day;— whereby, as in a kind of choral anthem, or bravura peal, of thanks, praises, promises, the Notables are, so... ...hures);’ flooded and eddying again. Hot deluge,—from so many Patriot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready-writer, now in the ...

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...tic knowledge of literature, (a light in which we are always to regard the writers of the Spectator, Guardian, &c.,) would be likely to have learned a... ...have learned anything he quoted from Macbeth. This we say generally of the writers in those periodical papers; but, with reference to Addison in parti... ... sought popularity himself, he durst not shock what perhaps he viewed as a national prejudice. Those who have happened, like ourselves, to see the eff... ...r taste for reading in the public, his fame never ceased to be viewed as a national trophy of honor; and the most illustrious men of the seventeenth c... .... T wo channels especially lay open between the great central organ of the national mind, and the remotest provinces. Parliaments were occasionally su... ...es; a verdict, in short, sustained and countersigned by a longer series of writers, many of them eminent for wit or learning, than were ever before co... ... secret assassination in the Jewish quarter rather than suppress his daily anthems to the Virgin, as a true his- torical personage on the rolls of mar... ..., on the other side, seemed to hear ascending, as with the solemnity of an anthem—“This man, that thought himself to be nobody, is dead—is buried; his...

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...English feeling on the American question was as follows: “This wide-spread nationality of the United States, with its enormous territorial possessions... ...the time when Englishmen were saying how impossible it was that so great a national power should ignore its own greatness and destroy its own power by... ...es. Such license would have been de- structive to the very idea of a great nationality. Where would New England have been, as a part of the United Sta... ...kily for us, our national conduct has not squared itself with our national anthem. Any patriotism must be poor which desires glory, or even profit, fo... ...so that it would be found that many more of the Americans were readers and writers by habit. In any large town in England it is probable that a higher... ...id, to an elderly female at New York, who had quoted to me some half dozen writers on international law, thinking thereby that I should trump her last...

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... he had been an inferior sort of attorney’s clerk, or else the master of a national school—whatever he was, it is clear his present position is a chan... ...a grand public examination of the pupils; and the large school-room of the national seminary was, by and with the consent of the parish authorities, d... ... interspersed with announcements of day- schools, penny theatres, petition-writers, mangles, and music for balls or routs, complete the ‘still life’ o... ...y hat, ’ which was then just beginning to form a recognised portion of our national music. We started.—’What voice is that?’ said we. The Gover- nor s... ...n- professional gentlemen joining in the chorus, and giv- ing the national anthem an effect which the newspa- pers, with great justice, describe as ‘p... ...s own personal grati- fication. And then all the company sang the national anthem with national independence—each for himself, without reference to th...

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...t of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet w... ...; it will take longer to appreciate the moral bias of Carlyle. So with all writers who insist on forc- ing some significance from all that comes befor... ...- ciple of growth that carried his first book beyond the books of previous writers, carries his last book beyond his first. And just as the most imbec... ...foreshadowed on the horizon; the fatality of distant events, the stream of national tendency, the salient framework of causation. And all this thrown ... ... done in a play-book: Tom and Molly retire into a practicable wood. As for nationality and public sentiment, it is curious enough to think that T om J... ...bilations; out of all this ringing of English bells and singing of English anthems, from among all these shouting citizens in scarlet cloaks, and beau... ... of them are drawing-room exercises and the rest seem made by habit. Great writers are struck with something in nature or society, with which they bec...

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... he had been an inferior sort of attorney’s clerk, or else the master of a national school—whatever he was, it is clear his present position is a chan... ...a grand public examination of the pupils; and the large school-room of the national seminary was, by and with the consent of the parish authorities, d... ... interspersed with announcements of day- schools, penny theatres, petition-writers, mangles, and music for balls or routs, complete the ‘still life’ o... ...y hat, ’ which was then just beginning to form a recognised portion of our national music. We started.—’What voice is that?’ said we. The Gover- nor s... ...n- professional gentlemen joining in the chorus, and giv- ing the national anthem an effect which the newspa- pers, with great justice, describe as ‘p... ...s own personal grati- fication. And then all the company sang the national anthem with national independence—each for himself, without reference to th... ...e at supper-time. * * * * * WE ARE NOT ABOUT TO ADOPT the licence of novel-writers, and to let ‘years roll on;’ but we will take the liberty of reques... ...sed her head, and beheld—Horatio Sparkins! ‘We will draw a veil,’ as novel-writers say, over the scene that ensued. The mysterious, philosophical, ro-...

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...hese heaped up papers had, and — saddest of all — without purchasing for their writers the comfortable livelihood which the clerks of the Custom House... ...ing various walks with the splash and murmur of the waves, and the solemn wind anthem among the tree tops. Often, likewise, one was the guest of the o... ...hich the Protestant divines, even while they vilified and decried that class of writers, were yet constrained often to avail themselves. On the other s... ...he early emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the national visage with it, that all the subsequent years have not sufficed...

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...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ... The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres, The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands, The cause is asleep, ... ... through the air and sky, And on the distant waves sail countless ships, And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 437 ... ... o’er all the rest, For thee, the future. I’d sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality, I’d fashion thy ensemble including body and soul, I’d show a...