H2 THE WHALEMAN'S ADVENTURES. 



Now, if the lines of commercial enterprise 

 can be only kept from parting with the recti- 

 linear of moral propriety and the law of God, 

 our career of greatness as a nation is clear and 

 glorious. The great future is before us, full of 

 hope, if old Puritan principles be only at the 

 head with modern New England enterprise. 



" Far, like the comet's way through infinite space, 

 Stretches the long, untravelled path of light 

 Into the depth of ages ; we may trace, afar, 

 The brightening glories of its flight, 

 Till the receding rays are lost to human sight." 



" I love thee, next to heaven above, 

 Land of my fathers ! thee I love ; 

 And rail thy slanderers as they will, 

 "With all tiny faults, I love thee still. 



I love thee when I hear thy voice 

 Bid a despairing world rejoice, 

 And loud from shore to shore proclaim, 

 In every tongue, Messiah's name ; 

 That name at which, from sea to sea, 

 All nations yet shall bow the knee." 



