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LONDON INTERNATIONAL 
Oh, silent father of our Kings to be, 
Mourn’d in this golden hour of jubilee, 
For this, for all, we weep our thanks to thee! 
For the world-compelling plan was thine^ 
And, lo! the long, laborious miles 
Of palace ; lo ! the giant aisles, 
Rich in model and design. 
Harvest-tool and husbandry, 
Loom and wheel and engin’ry, 
Secrets of the sullen mine. 
Steel, and gold, and corn, and wine, 
Fabric rough, or fairy fine. 
Sunny tokens of the Line, 
Polar marvels, and a feast 
Of wonder, out of the West and East, 
And shapes and hues of Art divine ! 
All of beauty, all of use. 
That one fair plannet can produce, 
Bi’ought from under every star, 
Blown from over every main. 
And niixt, as life is mixt with pain. 
The works of peace with works of war. 
And is the goal so far away ? 
Far, how far, no man can say, 
Let us have our dream to-day, 
0 ye, the wise who think, the wise who reign, 
From growing commerce loose her latest chain, 
And let the fair white-winged peacemaker fly 
To happy havens under all the sky. 
And mix the seasons and the golden hours. 
Till each man find his own in all men’s good, 
And all men work in noble brotherhood. 
Breaking their mailed fleets and armed towers, 
And ruling by obeying Nature’s powers. 
And gathering all the fruits of peace and crown’d with 
all her flowers. 
This was followed by a grand march by Auber, a prayer by 
the Bishop of London, the Hallelujah Chorus and the National 
Anthem, joined in most heartily by the eighty thousand joy¬ 
ous people present, with the waving of hats, handkerchiefs 
and the banners of all nations; when the procession returned 
to the throne, from which, in the name of the Queen, the 
Duke of Cambridge declared the Great Exhibiton open. Then 
the canon pealed their hoarse thunders to the world, and the 
work of inspection began. 
A FIRST GENERAL SURVEY. 
Before undertaking a critical examination of the myriads of 
objects presented and a philosophical comparison of the most 
