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The strength of ion men luivc these v/omcn tonight.
And tliev shout with the rapturovi.s sense of their miyht—
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Shout as men shout when they revel in fight,
Tiiey reel, but they fall not, The rope winds in fist;
Hark, hark! what a shout answers their siiDiif: at last—.
"That wi.l do! We touch bottom! Tlie danger i.i past!”

Then tlie women turn from the raging water
With the two they have snatched from its lust ibr slaughter,
But their feet flag now, and their breath comes shorter.

Hardly they hear in their sea-dimmed ears
The sound of sobs, or t:ie so mid of cheers—
Their eyes are drowned, but with spray, not tears.

When deeds of valor Coast v rants over Coast,
As to which proved bmw-St. and which did most.
Two Swansea women shall be my toast,
P i j i u l ' TSo u k k h M a r s t o n .

INFLUENCE OP AMRRTCAN FREEDOM.
S IR, our institutions are 1/cl'ing their own story by the blessings
ihey impart to us, and indoctrinating the people everywhere
with the principles of freedom apon which they are founded,
Ancient prejudices are yielding to their mighty influence. Hereto fire
revered, and apparently permanent systems of government, are falling
beneath it. Our glorious mother, free as she has ever comparatively
been, is getting to be freer. It has blotted oat the corruption- ol her
political franchise. It has broken her religious intolerance- Tt: has
greatly elevated the individual character of her subjects. It has
immeasurably weakened the power of her nobles, sue by weakening
in one sense has vastly strengthened the authority oi her crown, by