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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.





THE HOMES OF ENGLAND.




Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?
Marmion.



The stately Homes of England,
    How beautiful they stand!
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
    O'er all the pleasant land.
The deer across their greensward bound
    Thro' shade and sunny gleam,
And the swan glides past them with the sound
    Of some rejoicing stream.

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