THE ANCIENT BRITONS.

“Where the maned bison and the wolf did roam,

The ancient Briton reared his wattled home;

Paddled his coracle across the mere;

In the dim forest chased the antlered deer;

Pastured his herds within the open glade;

Played with his ‘young barbarians’ in the shade;

And when the new moon o’er the high hills broke,