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Ballads of Bravery.
EDITED BY GEORGE M. BAKER. WITH FORTY FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. 1877.
COPYRIGHT. LEE AND SHEPARD. 1877. BOSTON: ELECTROTYPED BY ALFRED MUDGE AND SON, SCHOOL STREET.
UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE: WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO.
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“Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night.” 13
The Glove and the Lions.—Leigh Hunt 18
A Young Hero. 21
The Beggar Maid.—Tennyson 26
Bunker Hill.—G. H. Calvert 29
Fastening the Buckle.—Samuel Burnham 34
Hervé Riel.—Robert Browning 37
The Battle of Lexington.—Geo. W. Bungay 46
The Brave at Home.—T. Buchanan Read 50
Kane.—Fitz James O’Brien 53
The Life-Boat.—Alice M. Adams 58
The Red Jacket.—George M. Baker 61
Othello’s Story of His Life.—Shakspeare 66
The Blacksmith of Ragenbach.—Frank Marry 70
Marmion and Douglas.—Scott 75
The Loss of the Hornet. 80
Man the Life-Boat.—Anon. 84
Sir Galahad.—Tennyson 87
King Canute and His Nobles.—Dr. Walcott 92
Outward Bound.—Anon. 96
The Brides of Venice.—Samuel Rogers 99
The Landing of the Pilgrims.—Mrs. Hemans 108
The Days of Chivalry.—Anon. 112
The Song of the Camp.—Anon. 116
The Recantation of Galileo.—F. E. Raleigh 120
Belshazzar.--Trans. from Heine 124
Liberty.—From William Tell. By J. Sheridan Knowles 128
The Fishermen.—Whittier 131
Excelsior.—Longfellow 136
The Soldier.—Robert Burns 140
John Maynard. 143
Excalibur.—Tennyson 148
The Death of Arthur.—Tennyson 152
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea.—Allan Cunningham 156
The Leap of Curtius.—Geo. Aspinall 159
The Ride from Ghent to Aix. 164
A Yarn.—Mary Howitt. 169
