THE ENGLISH RACE-

CALIFORNIA

SELECTED AND EDITED

BY

RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1921

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COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

THE SCRIBNER PRESS

O ye who in eternal youth

Speak with a living and creative flood
This universal English, and do stand

Its breathing book, live worthy of that grand
Heroic utterance-parted, yet a whole,
Far, yet unsevered,-children brave and free
Of the great Mother-tongue, and ye shall be
Lords of an empire wide as Shakespeare's soul,
Sublime as Milton's immemorial theme,

And rich as Chaucer's speech, and fair as Spenser's dream.

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SYDNEY DOBELL.