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Poetry: "Try Again"

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
December
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
Poem
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fl in lreland, overeóme by misfortune, had reeolved to abandon Kis claim to the Scoilish throre. AU at once, he bow a spider in the act of trying to swing itself from one beam to another. Six limes had itfailed; as it was preparing for another throw, Bruce determined that he would be guided by the result. - It.reached the point, and forthwith he rose up, went forth, and perilled his all in the cause o Scotland. Liberty men! We have not yet came to the stventh trial. The Ettrick Shepheld uses this incident to good purpose: "Try agnin, little weaver, Try again, try again! Ere you yield hope forever, T.7 again! There's a tide iri nature' d law, Man never, never saw, And sonie blessed breeze may blow; Try again, little hero! Though you risk adeadly fa'; Try again! "Do you ken, litlle hero, Do you ken, do you ken , Throngh adream ofchimera, Do you ken, That upon your effort good, There dependa a sea of blood And a name that has stood Among men, little hero! In the land of frith and flood, Dell and glen? lIn my dearnative land, Far away, far avvny, WiLh mjr brave liltle band, Many a day, 1 tried and tried sgain, In sorrow and in pain, Our freedom to regain; And like thee, VU try again, If ï niay. 'See'! a king is ón his knee, Swing away. swing away! To pray sticcess to thee, Swing away! His monitor to be, Here he tnkes thee solemniy, - Thou artfixed! And eo is he! So huzza! little hero; Now my country shall be free! So huzza!