1. Home they brought her warrior dead.—_Tennyson._
2. What sought they thus afar?—_Hemans._
3. If my standard-bearer fall, press where ye see my white
plume—_Macaulay._
4. Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake
not.—_Bible._
5. If fortune serve me I’ll requite this
kindness.—_Shakespeare._
6. The meteor flag of England
Shall yet terrific burn,
Till danger’s troubled night depart,
And the star of peace return.—_Campbell._
7. Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears—
Toil without recompense—tears all in vain—
Take them, and give me my childhood again.—_E. A. Allen._