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the egotism \vc like : we hope it will live. It is the egotism of a 

 sentiment worthy to be cherished, and where it prevails we may 

 be assured also of the existence of a principle coexisting without, 

 which will rally together the same spirit when outward or inward 

 dangers threaten the safety of our country or our institutions. We 

 take the liberty of copying one of the poems by our friend Wil- 

 liam Pitt Palmer, entitled the " Response of the Home-Comers." 



RESPONSE OF THE HOME-COMERS. 



*'Hail, Land of Green Mountains! whose valleys and streams 

 Arc fair as the Muse ever pictured in dreams; 

 Where the stranger oft sighs with emotion sincere, — 

 Ah, would that my own native home had been here ! 



Hail, Land of the lovely, the equal, the brave, 

 Never trod by the foe, never tilled by the slave; 

 Where the lore of the world to the hamlet is brought, 

 And speech is as free as the pinions of thought. 



But blest as thou art, in our youth we gave ear 

 To hope when she whispered of prospects more dear. 

 Where the hills and the vales teem with garlands untold. 

 And the rainbow ne'er flies with its jewels and gold. 



Yet chide not too harshly thy truants grown grey 



In the chase of bright phantoms that lured us astray; 



For weary and lone has our pilgrimage been 



From the haunts of our childhood, the graves of our kin. 



Nor deem that with us, out of sight outof mind, 

 Were the homes and the hearts we left saddened behind; 

 As the hive to the bee, as her nest to the dove. 

 These, these have been ever our centre of love. 



Yes, when far away from the Land of our birth. 

 We have mused mid the trophies and Tempes of earth. 

 Our thoughts, like thy spring-birds flown home o'er the sea, 

 Fn day-dreams anil night-dreams have still been with thee." 



ERRORS. 

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 Page 3, sixth line from the bottom, for " phosphate of lime," read " phosphates." 



