FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 189 



ROSE, YORK AND LANCASTER. This species was the 

 Rosa versicola. common ,log- rose,-the 



red adopted by the 

 house of Lancaster 

 the white by tliat of 

 York. 

 WAR. 



Long wns the strife your ancient hail 

 In Britain's hapless land pursued; 

 Which for a whole revolving age 

 Drenched cither rose in kindred blood. 



Fable of the White and Red Rose. 



SENTIMENT. 



Love, we part but to meet, 



When our foes shall be trodden like dust at our feet 

 No felti-rs, no tyrants our souls shall enslave, 

 While the ocean shall roll, or the harvest shall wave. 

 We go, to return when the strife shall he done, 

 When the field shall be fought, and the battle be won; 

 When the sceptre is smitten, and broken the chain, 

 We come back in freedom, or come not again. 

 Ours are no hirelings trained to the fight, 

 With cymbal and clariot, all glittering and bright, 

 No prancing of chargers, no martial display, 

 No war-trump is heard from our silent array; 

 O'er the proud heads of freemen our star-banner waves , 

 Men firm as their mountains, and still as their graves, 

 To-morrow shall pour out their life-blood like rain; 

 We come back in triumph, or come not again. 



No fearing, no doubting, thy soldier shall know, 

 When here stands his country, and yonder her foe; 

 One look at the bright sun, one prayer to the sky, 

 One glance where our banner floats glorious on high: 

 Then on, as the young lion bounds on his prey; 

 Let the sword flash on high, fling the scabbard away ; 

 Roll on, like the thunderbolt over the plain! 

 We come back in glory, or come not again. 



Thomas Gray, Jr. 



