Songs of Devon and Miscellaneous Poems Author:John Bradford Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: f But now, England, for thce, fairer prospects disclose— Happy land of the bold, of the fearless, the free; For Liberty's tree will be prop for the rose, ... more » Thy rose the chief ornament plac'd on that tree ; Here no fetter'd foot treads on the soil of thy land, No slave shall e'er breathe on our royal rose here, Our Isle of the ocean, with loyalty mann'd, Offers love to its sovereign untarnished by fear. Our "emblem" of peace, and our war cry, shall be Victoria ! the rose of the loyal But free. THE TRANSATLANTIC FLOWER. Iu an article on "Atlantic Steam Navigation" in a number of the "Quarterly Review," is the following:—"One of the passengers iu this ship (the Great Western) brought ever a splendid bouquet of American flowers, which he was enabled to present to a Lady, (such was the rapidity of the voyage) it seemed almost us fresh as if the dew was still on it. The fire-ship flew like the carrier dove With the greetings of peace and the words of love; O'er the bounding waves she has swept along, With the minstrel's mirth and the mariner's song. She has bounded on with the valiant brave, Where the halcyon slept on the summer wave, And the peterel—child of the sullen storm, She has left in her flight— where its spectre form Is seen to flit o'er the billows foam, Swift as a shade from the silent tomb. Fire ship. The Chinese of Canton have ths politeness to call our steamboats, "The fire ships ofthe Barbarians." The brave and the valiant had gathered round,t And with blessings had greeted the 'nowiE-ward bound; She had left on the deep in stern amaze, The most gallant barks of the by gone days.J Now the lordly merchants are counting o'er Her wealth and her gems and her golden store ; And the sons of pleasure have hastened forth, For th...« less