CHAPITRE XIV

Whence sympathies may spring, encumbered not

By circumstance of birth or mortal lot ,

But claiming virtue's universal meed !

And as those two great languages, whose sound

Has echoed trough the realms of modem time,

Feeding with thought and sentiments sublime

Each other and the listening world around,

Meet in thèse pages, as on neutral ground,

So may their nations' hearts in sweet accord be found 1

O France and England î on whose lofty crests The day-spring of the future flows so free, Save where the cloud of your hostility Settles between and holy light arrests, Shall ye, first instruments of God's behests, But blunt each other? Shall Barbarians see The two fair sisters of civility

Turn a fierce wrath against each other 1 s breasts? No! by our common hope and being, no!

By the expanding might and bliss of Peace,

By the revealed fatuity of war, England and France shall not be foe to fœ :

For how can earth her store of good increase, If what God loves to make, man's passions still will

R. M. Munes.

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