Excerpt from The Poetical Works of John Snowden Hopkins: Containing Alberto, an Epic Poem; Delascus, a Dramatic Poem; Together With Miscellaneous Poems Alberto. An Epic Poem. Canto I. "Seem they grave or learned? Why, so didst thou - seem they religious? Why, so didst thou; or are they spare in diet, Free from gross passion, or of mirth or anger, Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, Garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, Not working with the eye without the ear, And but with purged judgment trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem. Shakspeare. I. America! "my own, my native land!" The birth-place of Alberto as of me, - The soil that holds its fathers' ashes, and The champions of her cause and liberty; Great in her greatness - girded with the band Of freedom, forged in her sons' unity - The proud heirs of freedom, the heritage Bequeathed by patriot-father and by sage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.