TRIO.

Our home is on the sea, boy,

Our home is on the sea;

When Nature gave

The ocean-wave,

She markt it for the Free.

Whatever storms befall, boy,

Whatever storms befall,

The island bark

Is Freedom's ark,

And floats her safe thro’ all.

Behold yon sea of isles, boy,

Behold yon sea of isles,

Where every shore

Is sparkling o'er

With Beauty's richest smiles.

For us hath Freedom claimed, boy,

For us hath Freedom claimed

Those ocean-nests

Where Valor rests

His eagle wing untamed.

And shall the Moslem dare, boy,

And shall the Moslem dare,

While Grecian hand

Can wield a brand,

To plant his Crescent there?

No — by our fathers, no, boy,

No, by the Cross, we show —

From Maina's rills

To Thracia's hills

All Greece re-echoes “No!”

Like pleasant thoughts that o'er the mind

A minute come and go again,

Even so by snatches in the wind,

Was caught and lost that choral strain,

Now full, now faint upon the ear,

As the bark floated far or near.

At length when, lost, the closing note

Had down the waters died along,

Forth from another fairy boat,

Freighted with music, came this song —