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CLEAR vision, born of high desire That seeks Truth only evermore, As one who, from the eternal shore, Beholds the sea of glass and fire ; Or climbs the granite peaks alone, And......

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RALSTON'S SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE.* IT is one of the familiar features of Russian life, on which every traveller dwells, that the shop and the eating-house, the noble- man's......

F. D. Maurice.

How much does England lose in losing thee !— The wise, large heart, the fearless intellect, The spirit formed to counsel and direct By sympathy wide-spreading like the sea, And......