“Still wave the stars and bars

O’er Sumter’s battered walls;”—

The Fire of Freedom: (W. G. S.)

“The holy fire that nerved the Greek

To make his stand at Marathon.”—

First Love: By Colonel Wm. S. Hawkins. Johnson’s Island, Ohio, Jan., 1865. (Sunny.)

“In the blithesome days of boyhood,

In the unforgotten past;”—

Fishing in Troubled Waters: (R. B. B. 87.)

“In a dingy room of a mansion old, a solemn ‘council’ met.