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6 New Year.
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Pledge the true-hearted , Unchanged when ufar—As Inch Keith ' s distant beacon Guides the boat like a star . Pledge the true-hearted , Most fond in distress , As the fairest birks hide By the falls of Moness .
Pledge the true-hearted , Who will moan at our grave Round the island of death As moans Leven ' s wild wave Pledge the true-hearted
Who are they ? a host ? No , no— Pledge the true-heartedis the toast .
The blank may be filled up by the singer ad libitum , it he can ; if not , so much the worse for him ; " each for himself , and heaven for us all . " You have been to Scotland , have you I Well then , we wish you a happy new year nevertheless . Go to Paris Quite
cheap and easy . Book you from the " Universal Spread Eagle Office , Regent Circus , Piccadilly , for three pounds fifteen shillings all the way . " But if you don ' t like to make a toil of a pleasure , for the Calais journey is tough work , go by Havre , and steam it up the Seine to Rouen . There ' s refreshment for
a wearied spirit . JNot even Turner has ever told half the exquisite beauty of those wooded hills that embank the gentlest of rivers . But you will see many things that tourists have never told , or told of falsely ; falsely to you , that is , if you have eyes of your own , which every body ought to have that makes an excursion to mark a happy new year . For a sentient being , Paris is all picture ; and what has palled upon the ear
and mind by iteration , often turns out the most surprising , with a strange and unsuspected beauty . It is worth going only to see the tri-color Hying everywhere . Louis Philippe has not yet choused the people out of that . There arc no monstrous king ' s arms sticking about , with their ugly heraldry , and their air of individual property . The beautiful rainbow that it is ;
one of the only two Hags that are properly national , for the Union Jack is but . a compromise after all . Who cares about the crosses of St . Andrew and St . Cieorge I The whole thing is factitioiiH . We have a song that is national , and with a . soul of poetry in it that may challenge the world . Honour to the memory of Jemmy Thomson for the glorious lyric of Rule Britannia . Why cannot the bailor nail to the mast a flag with
6 New Year.
6 New Year .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/6/
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