Calendar: 1853-1854 Page 386

382 THE SCHOOL favour This is indeed an arduous task but it should comfort glorious spiiit that it is the highest step to which human nature can arrive Triumph applause acclamation are dear to the mind of man but it is still more exquisite delight to say to yourself you have done well than to hear the whole human race pronounce you glorious except you yourself can join with them in your own reflections mind thus equal and uniform may be deserted by little fashionable admirers and followers but will ever be had in reverence by souls like itself The branches of the oak endure all the seasons of the year though its leaves fall off in autumn and these too will be restored with the returning spring VIII- Cransilatc into Eatin fcifttal Grant that all the kings assemble At whose head the Scythians tremble Grant that in the train be they Whom the Red-Sea shores obey Where the gems and crystal caves Sparkle up through purple waves Bring with these the Caspian stout Who scorns to shut the invader out And the daring race that tread The rocking of the Danube's bed With those again where'er they be Who lapp'd in silken luxury Feed to the full their lordly will The noble mind is monarch still No need has he of vulgar force Armour or arms or chested horse Nor all the idle darts that light From Parthian in his feigned flight Nor whirling rocks from engines thrown That come to shake whole cities down No to fear not earthly thing This it is that makes the king And all of us whoe'er we be May carve us out this royalty