...heaven's peculiar grace. The heritage of Nature's noblest race. There is a spot of earth, supremely blent, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest ! Where man,...pride ; While in his softened looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend. Here woman reignt— the mother, daughter, wif«. Strews...

...this laud of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest nice, There is a spot of e&rth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the...sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his soften'd looks beniguly bleud The sire, the sou, the husband, father, friend : Here woman reigns ;...

...than realized the picture of domestic bliss so finely pourtrayed by the poet : — * There is n spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, motion's tyrant, casts nside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride; While in his soften'd looks...

...For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than...pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, father, friend. In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard...

...For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than...pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, father, friend. Here woman reigns i the mother, daughter, wife, Strews...

...For in this land of Heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than...pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, father, friend. Here woman reigns ; the mother, daughter, wife, Strows...

...his own land of every laud the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; His home a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. And is the negro outlaw'd from his birth ? Is he alone a stranger upou earth ? Is there no shed, whose...

...It was an arrangement, moreover, most grateful to his own feelings. Home was ever to him " the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.*' And it was happy for him that the genial influences of suck a home were shed so abundantly on the feelings...

...his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." There is a simplicity and a natural fluency about Mr. Montgomery's versification, to our taste, infinitely...

...spot of earth supremely blest, vp^g?. %J$' ''"'' if A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, ^£ife Where Man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword...pride ; While in his softened looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend ; Here Woman reigns : — the mother, daughter, wife, Strew...