artidts. Tap Altrigurry ow E.R..evo.vi. _ •rrrLLLLAIt Clft'LliS BRYANT. • Heeettie old. trees, tall oaks.andtaasrksd pines, That stream - with gray green mosses; 'bite the ground liras *ever trenched by spade; and cowers spring up Unsown, and die nngathered. It is sweet To linger here, among the flitting birds, And lenping squirrels, wandering brooks, end winds .Thsttabake the leaves. and scatter as they pass, r .tit fragrance from the cedars, thickly set With pate blue berries. In these peaceful shades— Peaceful, unpruncd, inwnert , urably old— My thoughts go up the jollfr dim path of years, Back to'the earliest days of liberty. ' 4 oh FREEDOM!' thou art not, as poets dream, ' 7 A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, - rnd wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman tnaster crowned his slave WLest he took off the gyves. A hoarded man, Armed to the teeth, nrt thou; one mailed hand. • Grasps•the broad shield, and one the sword ; thy brow Glorious in 'beauty, though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars: thv massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power nt thee has launched His bolts, nod with his lightnings smitten thee: They could not quench the life thou hest from heaven. Merciless power has•dug thy dungeon deep, And his swam armours, by a thousand fires, 4-lave forted thy chair); yet, while he dreams thee bound, The links arc shiveted, and the prison walls Fall outward: terribly thou springest forth, Aa springs the flame above a burning pile, And shoutest to the nations, who return Thrshoutings, while the pale oppressor flies. Thy birthright was not given by human hands. Thou wert twin-horn with man. In plert.ant fields, While yet our race was few, thou ectist with him, To tend the quiet flock and watch the Atars, And teach the reed' to utter simple airs. ThOu by hia side, amid the tangled wood, Did war upon the panther and the wolf, His only foes; and thou with him didst draw 'The e arh", furrows on the mountain side, Soft with the deluge. Tyranny himself, The enemy, although of t everend look, Hoary wild" many years, and far obeyed. Is latter born than Thum and as he meets The grave defiance of thine elder eye, The usurper trembles in Ids fastness. .. Thou shalt wax