“Yet <g>Barons</g> of the land! to you A grateful people still retains Proud memory of the swords ye drew-- The swords that broke a tyrant’s chains, And planted Freedom on our plains! For Freedom’s cradle was the <g>Keep</g>, Her guardians were the Barons bold; Who placed her temple on the steep, And on her head a crown of gold; And cried--‘The deed is done! Behold, Henceforth our British land shall be The glorious land of Liberty!’” The visitor, as he crosses the rustic bridge that now spans the moat, will recall the interesting fact, that this very spot, so to speak, was the “birthplace” of the <g>Steam-engine</g>; a circumstance which, had Raglan no other claim to their notice, must entitle it to a more than cursory observation from all who have an hour to spend within its walls. The spot where it is believed to have been first placed by the inventor--then Lord Herbert--was in a building erected close under the wall of the Keep, where the drawbridge rose; but which has left few or no traces, in shape or dimensions, that are now visible above the moat. It is satisfactory, however, to know that the ground is stamped by tradition as the spot where the noble inventor, during his father’s lifetime, made his first experiments on the uses and powers of steam; and where he probably constructed that “model of his invention,” which he desired might be placed with him in his coffin. If ancient warriors considered it an honourable distinction to be consigned to the tomb in a full suit of armour, it was excusable in one who had carried with him through life the remembrance of many wrongs, many sacrifices, to desire that, at least, the evidence of one bloodless triumph, one proof of scientific discovery, might accompany him at his final departure from this scene. It was the favourite child of his matured judgment, the result of those scientific researches, after which he had been straining for many years--the mighty consequences of which were dimly foreshadowed in his imagination. It was the reward and consolation of a life of suffering, as well as of science; and there is something both natural and touching in the wish that this model--the only mechanical evidence that told him “he had not lived in vain”--should be deposited with him in the grave.