Cooee! North, hear the song
On the South’s breath,
Laurels to life belong;
Cypress to death!
Wreathe in song’s garland fair,
Culled with a Nation’s care,
My cypress leaf—a prayer,
Warm with South’s breath!
Eleanor Elizabeth Montgomery.
NOTES
I.—ENGLAND
[I]
Agincourt, or the English Bowmans Glory. To a pleasant new Tune. Quoted in Heywood’s King Edward IV., and, therefore, popular before 1600. This ballad has been severely edited, and I omit several stanzas. It is printed in full in Hazlitt’s edition of Collier’s ‘Shakespeare’s Library,’ vol. i. (Reeves & Turner, 1825).