VIRGINIA To Virginia, who gave the "Fifth Kingdom" to England, but who gives the first to all who love her. Quiété Troubelykoy Princess Troubetzkoy. "Castle Hill," Virginia. The London Company seal, adopted in 1619, bore the motto, "En dat Virginia quintum." Behold Virginia gives the Fifth Kingdom, "SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS" HERE'S to Virginia, Columbia's first child, In her glorious eyes. Wilderness-cradled, her lullaby song The beauty of honor, the shame of wrong; While the lesson she learned at her mother's breast Was courage to bleed for the weak and oppressed. Hating all tyrants from earliest breath, "Sic Semper Tyrannis!" Brave pledge of the State That death shall be ever the tyrant's quick fate! Extend round the world thy great gospel of Right, 'Til Freedom dispelleth Oppression's dark night! JULIA WYATT BULLARD. WILLIAMSBURG THE ancient capital, the oldest city in Virginia, is the Mecca of patriots. Here stands the venerable college, the Alma Mater of statesmen, poets, and orators. Here stands Bruton, "The Westminster Abbey of Virginia," within whose walls the founders of Virginia worshipped the God of their fathers, and acquired that "ghostly strength" which enabled them, first to conquer themselves and then to conquer the savage and bruise the paw of the British lion. Our streets reëcho the footsteps of men who builded commonwealths, wrote declarations, and drafted constitutions for generations yet unborn. About us echo the tones of orators who thrilled listening senates and made tyrants totter on their thrones. Williamsburg, the City of William, ever reminds the traveller, by her very name, that tyranny shall perish from the earth. William and Mary College. J. LESLIE HALL. |