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Transcribed from the 1889 Cassell and Company edition by David Price,ccx074@coventry.ac.uk

p. 3THEVISIONS OF ENGLAND: LYRICS OF LEADING MEN AND EVENTS IN ENGLISH HISTORY

by
FRANCIS T. PALGRAVE
Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford
Late Fellow of Exeter College

TANTA RES EST, UT PAENE VITIO MENTIS TANTUM OPUS INGRESSUS MIHI VIDEAR

CASSELL & COMPANY, limited:
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1889

p. 4Bythe same Author

THE VISIONS OF ENGLAND: Seventy Lyrics on leading Men and Eventsin English History: 8vo.  7/6

LYRICAL POEMS, Four Books: Extra Fcap.  8vo.  6/-

ORIGINAL HYMNS: 18mo.  1/6

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Poetry edited by the same

THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF ENGLISH LYRICAL POETRY: 18mo.  4/6

THE CHILDREN’S TREASURY OF ENGLISH LYRICAL POETRY, with Notesand Glossary: 18mo.  2/6.  Or in two parts, 1/- each

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SELECTION FROM R. HERRICK’S LYRICAL POETRY, with Essay andNotes: 18mo.  4/6

THE POETICAL WORKS OF J. KEATS, reprinted; literatim fromthe original editions, with Notes: 18mo.  4/6

LYRICAL POEMS BY LORD TENNYSON, selected and arranged, with Notes:18mo.  4/6

GLEN DESSERAY AND OTHER POEMS, by J. C. Shairp, late Principal ofthe United College, S. Andrews, and Professor of Poetry in the Universityof Oxford.  With Essay and Notes.  8vo.

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To be published presently

THE TREASURY OF SACRED SONG, selected from the English Lyrical Poetryof Four Centuries, with Notes Explanatory and Biographical

Clarendon Press, Oxford
Aug. 1889

p. 5INTRODUCTION.

Again, on behalf of readers of this NationalLibrary, I have to thank a poet of our day—in this casethe Oxford Professor of Poetry—for joining his voice to the voicesof the past through which our better life is quickened for the dutiesof to-day.  Not for his own verse only, but for his fine sensealso of what is truest in the poets who have gone before, the name ofFrancis Turner Palgrave is familiar to us all.  Many a home hasbeen made the richer for his gathering of voices of the past into adainty “Golden Treasury of English Songs.”  Of thiswork of his own I may cite what was said of it in Macmillan’sMagazine for October, 1882, by a writer of high authority in EnglishLiterature, Professor A. W. Ward, of Owens College.  “A veryeminent authority,” said Professor Ward, “has accorded toMr. Palgrave’s historical insight, praise by the side of whichall words of mine must be valueless,” Canon [now Bishop] Stubbswrites:—“I do not think that there is one of the Visionswhich does not carry my thorough consent and sympathy all through.”

Here, then, Mr. Palgrave re-issues, for the help of many thousandsmore, his own songs of the memories of the Nation, addressed to a Nationthat has not yet forfeited the praise of Milton.  Milton said ofthe Englishman, “If we look at his native towardliness in theroughcast, without breeding, some nation or p. 6othermay haply be better composed to a natural civility and right judgmentthan he.  But if he get the benefit once of a wise and well-rectifiednurture, I suppose that wherever mention is made of countries, manners,or men, the English people, among the first that shall be praised, maydeserve to be accounted a right pious, right honest, and right hardynation.”  So much is shown by the various utterances in thisNational Library.  So much is shown,in the present volume of it, by a poet’s vision of the Englandthat has been till now, and is what she has been.

H. M.

p. 7tothe names of
HENRY HALLAM and FRANCIS PALGRAVE
friends and fellow-labourers in english history
for forty years,
who, differing often in judgment,
were at one throughout life in devoted love of
justice, truth, and england,
in affectionate and reverent remembrance
this book is inscribed and dedicated

p. 9PREFACE

As the scheme which the Author has here endeavoured to execute hasnot, so far as he knows, the advantage of any near precedent in anyliterature, he hopes that a few explanatory words may be offered withoutincurring censure for egotism.

Our history is so eminently rich and varied, and at the same time,by the fact of our insular position, so stamped with unity, that fromdays very remote it has supplied matter for song.  This, amongCelts and Angles, at first was lyrical.  But poetry, for many centuriesafter the Conquest, mainly took the annalistic form, and, despite the