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troublous time, to be tossed on the wrong 
side;’’ that is, on the side of freedom, 
always the wrong side to men of the 
Stuart temper and principle. 
Marvell’s poetic productions are few, 
but they are sweet and melodious; he is 
placid without tameness, and familiar 
without carelessness. If he never rises 
to great heights, he never sinks to bathos; 
if he was not capable of producing 
Samson Agonistes, neither was he 
capable of producing Hudibras. His 
verse is smooth and his sentiments al- 
ways pureand refined. His gentle fancy 
is seen in such lines as these, from ‘‘ The 
Nymph complaining of the death of her 
Ate 
Fawn: 
**T have a garden of my own, 
But so with roses overgrown, 
And lilies, that you would it guess 
To be a little wilderness, 
And all the springtime of the year 
It only loved to be there. 
Among the beds of lilies I 
Have sought it oft where it should lie; 
Yet could not, till itself would rise, 
Find it, although before mine eyes; 
For in the flaxen lilies’ shade 
It like a bank of lilies laid, 
Upon the roses it would feed 
Until its lips e’en seemed to bleed; 
And then to me ’twould boldly trip, 
And print those roses on my lip. 
But all its chief delight was still 
On roses thus itself to fill; 
And its pure virgin limbs to fold 
In whitest sheets of lilies cold. 
Had it lived long, it would have been 
Lilies without, roses within.”’ 
““The Bermudas”? is in a stronger 
vein; it was written when England was 
driving forth some of her choicest 
spirits to people the New World; it 
breathes the spirit of freedom and of the 
tropics. 
*“Where the remote Bermudas ride, 
In the ocean’s bosom unespied, 
From a boat that rowed along, 
The listening winds received this song. 
What should we do but sing his praise 
That led us through the watery maze, 
Unto an isle so long unknown, 
And yet far kinder than our own! 
He lands us on a grassy stage, 
Safe from the storms and prelates’ rage; 
He gave us this eternal spring, 
Which here enamels everything; 
He hangs in shades the orange bright, 
Like golden lamps in a green night; 
He makes the figs our mouths to meet, 
And throws the melons at our feet. 
He cast (of which we rather boast) 
The Gospel’s pearl upon our coast; 
And in these rocks for us did frame 
A temple where to sound his name. 
Oh! let our voice his praise exalt, 
Till it arrive at heaven’s vault; 
Which then, perhaps, rebounding, may 
Echo beyond the Mexique Bay! 
Thus sung they in the English boat 
A holy and a cheerful note, 
And all the way, to guide their chime, 
With falling oars they kept the time.”’ 
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Marvell lived in an age of political and 
religious ferment and unrest. England 
was sailing over troubled seas. But old 
world shadows were passing, and west- 
ward the course of empire was beginning 
to take its way. Puritanism, with its 
gift of civil and religious liberty, was the 
only hope of the future. Would that 
all Puritans had been of Marvell’s genial 
and wholesome nature; then the _histo- 
rian would have had less to say of their 
sour aspect, their groans and _ their 
whining hymns. ‘They would have im- 
pressed the world with something beside 
their strenuous righteousness and iron 
will; their Damascus blades would have 
been not less keen because of jewels on 
the hilt and fine tracery on the scabbard. 
The Boston Transcript. 
Do you know the Wednesday Boston 
Transcript? Many people when shown 
a copy for the first time express their ap- 
preciation of its magazine articles, its 
genealogical page, its many departmental 
features, as well as its unusually high 
tone as a general newspaper. The 
Wednesday Transcript is a literary deli- 
cacy to tide one over from Saturday to 
Saturday. 
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