62 HEREDITY. 



Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were 



furled, 

 In the parliament of man, the federation of the world." 



Locksley Hall. 



You say that these words are outgrown ; but a late 

 poetess, whom England loves to call Shakspeare's 

 daughter, was to the very last hour of her life in- 

 clined to the same opinions. It ill becomes us dull 

 people, when a Mrs. Browning sings ahead of us, 

 not to see her spirit from the Unseen beckoning 

 England and America and the ages to the final 

 realization of her own ideal : — 



" Rise : prefigure the grand solution 



Of earth's municipal insular schisms — 

 Statesmen, draping self-love's conclusions 



In cheap vernacular patriotisms. 

 Bring us the higher example : release us 

 Into the larger coming time. 

 No more Jew or Greek then — taunting 



Nor taunted : no more England nor France, 

 But one confederate brotherhood, planting 



One flag only, to mark the advance, 

 Upward and onward, of all humanity. 



" National voices, distinct yet dependent, 

 Ensphering each other as swallow does swallow, 

 With circles still widening and ever ascendent 

 In multiform life to united progression. 

 These shall remain. 



" Each Christian nation shall take upon her 

 The law of the Christian man in vast: 



The crown of the getter shall fall to the donor, 

 And last shall be first, and first shall be last, 



And to love best shall still be to reign unsurpassed." 



Italy and the World 



