Rap, rap! your stout and bluff brogan, With footsteps slow and weary, May wander where the sky's blue span Shuts down upon the prairie. On beauty's foot, your slippers glance By Saratoga's fountains, Or twinkle down the summer dance Beneath the crystal mountains! The red brick to the mason's hand, The brown earth to the tiller's, The shoe in yours shall wealth command, Like fairy Cinderella's! As they who shunned the household maid Beheld the crown upon her, So all shall see your toil repaid With heart and home and honor. Then let the toast be freely quaffed, In water cool and brimming-- "All honor to the good old Craft Its merry men and women!" Call out again your long array, In the old time's pleasant manner: Once more, on gay St. Crispin's Day, Fling out his blazoned banner. INDEX. Adult schools at Gainsborough, started by J. F. Winks and T. Cooper, 171 Akiba, Ben Joseph, 194, 195 Alexander of Comana, 193 Alexandria, the pious cobbler of, 198 Alley, John B., 277 Andersen, Hans C., 210 Angling, book on, by Younger, 246, 247 Annianus of Alexandria, 192 Ansell and the battle of Aughrim, 245 Apelles and the cobbler, 191 Ashmole, Elias, and Partridge, 221 Askham, John, 248 Athenæum, quoted from, 115, 247, 278 Baldwin, H. P., 277 Baptist jubilee memorial, 131 Baptist missions commenced by Carey and Thomas, 141, 142 Barebones, Praise God, 216 Baudouin, the learned, 200 Baviad and Mæviad, 75, 82, 86-7 Benbow and nautical songs, 17 Bennet, John, poet, 229 Bennett, Timothy, of Hampton-Wick, 212 Bentinck, Lady, visits Carey when dying, 146 Berridge, John, and John Thorp, 257 Blacket, Joseph, 236, 242 Blanshard's Life of Bradburn, 65, 66, 67, 70 Bloomfield and Blacket, 239 Bloomfield, George, 94, 95, 96, 238 Bloomfield, Nathaniel, 94, 96, 98, 239 Bloomfield, Robert, a farmer's boy at Sapiston, 94 a ladies' shoemaker, 171 becomes a shoemaker, 94, 95 Birth and childhood, 94 his first poems, 96, 97 his mother, 94, 102 his last years, death, and burial, 101 life in London, 94, 101 list of his poems, 96, 97, 102-3 marriage of, 98 method of composing "The Farmer's Boy," 98 poetical tributes in "Blackwood," etc., 102, 103 Bloomfield, Robert, publishes "The Farmer's Boy," 99 Boehmen, Jacob, the mystic, 205-207 opinions of, by Charles I., William Law, &c., 206 Bowden, Mr., of Taunton, Lackington's master, 34