public instruction and many large institutions of higher learning. In
matters where taste is concerned she still leads the world.

[32.] Frieze, coarse woolen cloth.

[33.] Holland is now known as The Netherlands. The sovereign is the
young queen Wilhelmina, who began to reign in 1898.

[34.] Rampire, a dam or dike.

[35.] From opulence that springs. Holland was a great commercial power
during the seventh [Transcriber's note: should probably be
"seventeenth"] century; then her commerce dwindled, and after 1713 she
was of small political importance. Of course the poet's description is
greatly exaggerated.

[36.] Dull as their lakes. The Netherlands can at present boast of
four public universities.

[37.] Belgic sires. _Belgae_ was the name given to the early
inhabitants of Holland and certain regions near that country.

[38.] Lawns, cleared places in a wood; not cultivated grassland near a
house, as now.

[39.] Arcadian pride. Arcadia is an inland country in Greece, often
mentioned by poets as a place of ideal beauty.

[40.] Famed Hydaspis. The river Jhelum, or Jhelam, in India, about
which many fabulous stories used to be told. One was, that its sands