We heard the Eternal Voice Pronounce, "Let there be Light!" And, shrieking, fled, beneath the wings Of the escaping Night. We saw the earth arise, Childlike, from Nature's womb, And flew to it, with joyous cries,-- We knew it was our home. IV. How brilliant, then, its dyes, O'er past we could not grieve;-- We rocked the trees of Paradise, And whisked the locks of Eve. Mid things so gay and calm, With wings, as those of doves, We floated o'er those fields of balm, As lightest zephyr roves. V. All changed from peace to wrath When stern Archangel came And drove that pair from garden path, With sword of lambent flame. Our wings grew strong and broad, Our anger burst on high, We tore huge trees,--we dashed along, Our shadows gloomed the sky. VI. Our home, the boundless air Or Ocean's surging breast,-- We meet the lightnings' lurid glare, Or hang on rainbow's crest; At touch, the forests bow, The lake uplifts its voice, The long grass hums its anthem low, And ocean waves rejoice. VII. Our flocks, the drifting clouds That sweep across the plain, Like vessels seen, with netted shrouds, At rest upon the main. We laugh to see them spread With darkened fleece, afar,-- While thunders mutter, overhead, Like trumpet notes of war. VIII. We scorn the pride of man, With us he dare not cope, Build vessel strong as e'er he can, We shiver mast and rope. Too long we tarry now-- Away,--with speed, away, More than a thousand miles we go, To sink a ship to-day. * * * * * BRITISH LOSSES IN THE REVOLUTION. FROM APRIL 19, 1775, TO THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL BURGOYNE, OCTOBER 17, 1777 [The following account of the losses of the British in the Revolution, for the first thirty months of the war, is taken from The London Magazine of February, 1778, and is interesting in that it differs from all the statements that appear in our United States Histories of that portion of the war.--ED.] In March, 1776, the Parliament of Great Britain Voted 42,390 Men for the Service of America; These troops Landed Accordingly, And have Lost agreeable to their Returns as Followeth:--