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,