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Unshaw, R. N. Mr. Fuher was interred at the cemetery in the Harrow road, being followed to to the grave by his children, prirate friends, fore- men, and the principal part of his workpeople, to many of whom he had been an indulgent master during a period of thirty-six years.
One or the latest works published by Mr. Henry Fisher was A History of the County Pa- latine and Duchy ofLancailer, edited by Edward Baines, esq.* M. P. for Leeds, in four vols. 4 to.
1837, July la. The printers of Edinburgb celebrated the fourth centenary of the invention of the art of printing, by a social entertiunmenl in the theatre-royal. Thomas Campbell, author of the Pleature* of Hope, and other poems, in Uie chair. In the course of the evening, the fol- lowing song, written for the occasion by Mr. Alexander Smart, printer, was sung by Mr. Heat- ley, printer: the music by Mr. George Croall :
When liberty first sonsht a home on the earth,
No altar the goddess could And. TiU art's greatest tzinmph to lointing gave blitb.
And her temple she reared In the mind. Hie phantoms of ignorance sbmnk from her sight,
And tyranny's visage grew wan t As wildly he traced, in the Volume of Light,
The pledge of redemption to man I
All boll the return of the glorious day.
When freedom her banner unfurled — And sprung trova the Press the Promethean ray
That dawned on a Blnmberlng world -, When Sdance. exalting in freedom and mi^t.
Unveiled to the nations her eye. And waved ttom her tresses, refulgent in light,
A glory that never can die.
The mighty Enchanter, whose magical key
Unlocked all the fountains of mind. The thoughts of the mighty in triumph set free.
In cloistered confusion confined j The lay of the Poet, the lore of the Sage,
Burst forth ITom obaenrity's gloom. And started to life, in the wonderful page,
The glories of Greece and of Rome.
Great ark at our freedom I the Prem we adoi«—
Our glory and power are in thee ; A vnlce thou hast wafted to earth's farthest shore—
The shout of the great and the free. The slave's galling fetters are burst by the might*
The empire of reason is thine ; And nations rejoice in the glorious light,
Which Hows (Tom a fountain divine.
- Kdward Baines, esq., M. P.
. London, 1838. Intro-
duction, pogexcU. — xdii.
t See page IM ante.
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