Transcribed from the 1889 Cassell and Company edition ,ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
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
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THE TREASURY OF SACRED SONG, selected from the English Lyrical Poetryof Four Centuries, with Notes Explanatory and Biographical
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Aug. 1889
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