THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR. LENOX

TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

"The

BY W. WHEATER,

Author of the "Record of the 51st (King's Own Light Infantry) Regiment;
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers; Temple Newsam; "Esholt Priory," &c.

66

The dearest spot a good man finds on earth
Is that where he, a prattling child, first knew

The tender care a gentle mother gives;

First saw the roof that held him from the storm,

And learnt the worth of a kind father's hand :

The spot where o'er his grandsires' graves he strayed,
When all was fresh and beautiful to him,

And innocent,

ANON,

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, & Co., PATERNOSTER Row.

"He who wishes to be called a good citizen, ought to love the very soil on which he has first stood, and the very sky whence he has first drawn his breath."-Muretus.