...AN ODE, IN IMITATION OF .UC/EITS. WHAT constitutes a State ? .Vot high-raised battlement or labour'd mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd ; Not bays and broad-arm'd ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starr'd...

...are what we need. if _ • " These constitute a state",— | " Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned, Where laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-born baseness...

...battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned, Where laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-born baseness wafts perfume to pride ; No ; — men, high-minded men." Let those \vhodespair of...

...protected. What constitutes the State ? " What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud,...laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spansled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: Men, hish-minded Men, With powers...

...monuments, but in its men. " Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate, Mot cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned, Not...ports, Where laughing at the storm rich navies ride, Nor starred sind spangled courts, When; low-bred baseness wafts perfume to pride ; No ! Men, high-minded...

...define a State. " What constitutes a State ?" it is asked : " Not high-raised battlements, or labor'd mound, Thick wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd ; No ! Men, high-minded men, Men, who their duties know ; But know their rights; and knowing,...

...turrets crowned — " The high-raised battlements And laboured mound, thick wall and moated gate, And bays, and broad-armed ports, where laughing at The storm, rich navies ride," and States, Principalities, and Republics, have owed their existence and origin to one Columbus. It...

...genius, without exclusive devotion to the purА я Ode, m Imitation of Alaeiu. What constitutes a state ! and eve — He hath a cushion plump : It is the moss...lights so many and fair That signal made but now U'here low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded men, With powers as far above...

...none the less true and weighty because clothed in poetic language : — " What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or laboured mound, Thick...moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starr'd...

...to wretchedness." 3. " What constitutes a state ? — Not high raised battlements, or labored m6und, Thick wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with...spires and turrets crowned, Not bays and broad-armed p6rts, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, — Where...