DUTY. Stern law-giver, yet thou dost wear Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, Ode to Duty. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. The path of duty is the way to glory : The path of duty is the way to glory : Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled To which our God himself is moon and sun. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. ALFRED TENNYSON. SONNET TO DUTY. Θεός τις ἐστ ̓ ἐν ἡμίν. EURIPIDES (Fragm.). Light of dim mornings; shield from heat and cold; Nurse, whose calm hand its strong restriction lays, Spell that knits friends, but yearning lovers parts; Oh, can it be thine other name is Heaven? THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON. How soon all worldly wrong would be repaired! After thy healing, with such different eyes. XI. Truth and Freedom. Sacrifice. 'Tis man's perdition to be safe O Truth! O Freedom! how are ye still born To W. L. Garrison. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. TRUTH AND FREEDOM. They are slaves who fear to speak They are slaves who will not choose Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three Stanzas on Freedom. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. AMERICA. My country, 'tis of thee, Land where my fathers died, My native country, thee,- I love thy rocks and rills, Let music swell the breeze, |