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