LVI.—LOVE OF COUNTRY AND OF HOME.

MONTGOMERY.

1. There is a land, of every land the pride,

Beloved by heaven o’er all the world beside;

Where brighter suns dispense[421] serener[422] light,

And milder moons imparadise[423] the night:

A land of beauty, virtue, valor, truth,

Time-tutored age, and love-exalted youth.

2. The wandering mariner, whose eye explores