Liberty
(Golder Project subject term)
Represented in
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Answer to the Lover’s Invitation in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- ’Tis not thy garden rare, dearest laddie, O, / Nor yet thy fields so fair, dearest laddie, O, / That can avail with me; for, as love is ever free, / ’Tis thine that conquers me, my dearest laddie,
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The Thrashing Floor in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- His toils give him pleasure when nought else can please, / His heart, of independence is proud, still scorning ease,
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A Parting for War.—A Song in The New Zealand Survey
- There’s glory ’mid the din of war, / Though nought ye see but danger, love; / Should Freedom’s sons e’er brook debar / From proving her avenger, love! / ’Tis thine, indeed, to weep o’er ills / Which tyrant pride inflicteth, love; / But be it mine to thwart that will / Which Freedom’s joys restricteth, love!
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Paikakariki.—A Sonnet in The New Zealand Survey
- While the sun, shining free, / Paints all with bright glories most charming to see!
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Signs of the Times in 1853 in The New Zealand Survey
- How clashing int’rests are at war, / As each his neighbour would debar / From all those precious liberties, / Fancied or real, said t’ arise / From this our new born Constitution, / With quite as firm a resolution
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Auld Jamie Waft.—A Song in The New Zealand Survey
- Auld Jamie had been a bright weaver of old, / And seldom was favored with silver or gold; / Though early and late he would ply at his craft, / Still blythe as a linnet was auld Jamie Waft. / And when to New Zealand auld Jamie did come, / To follow dame fortune and seek a fresh home; / In meeting with hardships he never shew’d saft, / But stick to his colours did auld Jamie Waft. / For Jamie when landed had scarcely a shilling, / But had a stout heart and twa hands that were willing / For all kind o’ wark though professing no craft; / So naething could wrang come tae auld Jamie Waft.
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- they come to read a page / Of British hist’ry, that they thence might draw / Instructive lessons on the arts of peace, / Of freedom, and of enterprise, conjoin’d; / With a high tone of morals, which pervade / Society as attendant, seen from high / To low degree, compared with all they know / Among their own,—as on an ample sheet / In characters both legible and plain / Laid forth before them.
- How Tyranny is here put to the blush / To see a happy people who possess / A nobleness of soul,—ev’n ’mongst the poor;— / Which quite outshines that of their pompous peers / In outward splendour clad;—while among whom / All freedom circulates, as through one’s veins / Flows the life giving fluid in good health / Imparting joyous vigour through the frame;— / Such freedom that appreciated can be / Best by its daily use—becoming part / And parcel of existance—and exempt / From aught that tends to turn it to abuse:—
- And well may Britain as a nation rise / To show obedience ready, and rejoice / At being so distinguished as the scene / Of much that’s good; but more to be employ’d / As Heav’n’s great Herald, in proclaiming peace / And concord to the nations far and near, / Aye, ev’n though ’twere with her artillery’s force
- they long had been deceived / By their wild fancies, when they thought themselves / Reposit’ries of wisdom; and they knew / All worthy to be known! Thus prejudice / Like a huge serpent of volum’nous length / Around its devotees had twined itself / In strangling folds, and long withstood th’ attempt / By philanthropic aid, to be expell’d / As riddance much desired—while they themselves, / As slaves would hug their chains, in ignorance / Of freedom’s blessings,—
- And among whom their Queen can walk at large— / Save but for equipage and princely show / Becoming dignity—without that dread / Which calls for great precautions of defence, / As despots use ’mid their degraded serfs:— / Nay, more, receive a welcome that resounds
- And Superstition fain would hide the head / Convinced of folly in its rigid rites / Of formal services, and outward show, / Where mammon more is served than Him who claims / The humble heart’s devotion as his due. / Come from a sterile soil, where stunted views / Of holy life but grovel upon earth, / And never can expand to heav’nly heights, / Nor peace nor charity extend to all / Who differ may in conscience from his rule; / He finds some strange misgivings in his heart, / As there, some voice for first to him reveal’d, / A deep impression makes, as ’twould declare / That with his former ideas of truth / Were mingled much of error!—such bestirs / Reflections on the history of the past / With sighings for the future, while he strives / To raze what habit long has rooted deep!
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Preface in The New Zealand Survey
- after a sojourn among the valleys, where the eye is circumscribed to narrow limits; then coming into such an open space where the eye can find an abundant scope for its roving
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An Ode on Manawatu in The New Zealand Survey
- Let enterprise now have its freedom unchecked, / Give industry scope for its energies new;
- The country’s extent gives an impulse, which makes / His heart beat with freedom; while forth he must view / Thy great spreading plains, he prospective partakes / Much pleasure
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Canto Fifth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Should some lot / On us, by man tyrannic, be imposed, / As not appointed of the Sovereign’s will; / A dispensation may to us be given, / Empow’ring us our liberty to work, / Or aught remove, which progress would impede, / If our advancement be the will of Heaven! / What otherwise is ours, our duty is / To make the best of what seems the reverse / Of all accounted good; as thereby’s shewn / Our virtue, and its nature; as ’twill shine / With such a brightness, which would best declare / One’s genuineness of soul!—Or what is good, / Must still improved be, as ’tis never will’d / Such should be held at discount; as such were / Incapable of being more advanced;
- Blest is the heart, in love, that’s satisfied; / And feels contented with the lot he owns:
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The Picture of a Poet in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- In patriotic virtues he ’ll excell: / He tunes his lyre his country’s praise to tell, / Or of heroic deeds his numbers swell, / T’ exalt each hero’s fame: / Nay, even he / Will forward stand, defensive, in her name— / In all which may affect her cause, / Her priv’liges, or freedom’s laws / Resisting knavery!
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Canto First in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- This opportunity, reserved for man,
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Canto Second in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- “Affliction turns the soul from earth to Heaven.” / Her confidence thus fix’d, she now can wait / With patience Heaven’s decree to say “Enough; / Now give her rest:—her, set at liberty / From falshood’s bondage, and a worldly hell, / Where plighted love has proved itself a Cheat!
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Priestly Bigotry. an epigram in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Priestly Bigots with truth in arrears, / Themselves exert, contracting the domain / Of heavenly freedom: while their victims gain’d / Are soul degraded, full of creature-fears: / Yes, round their souls vile superstition’s mesh / Is wove, as spiders would their prey secure!
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Canto Sixth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- How well it is to moralize on Love, / Recounting all the bliss its truth contains! / As Heav’n imposes duties, on our lives, / To be fulfill’d; so leaves He such to be / Perform’d, according to our means, or as / Our sev’ral natures will allow, the due / Accomplishment of all that is required. / As none has been restricted to one mode, / Or bound down to one form of instinct; as / The tribes inferior, which each class controls. / So, man is blest with freedom, as becomes / His reason, to adopt what course he deems / Best for the purpose in his nature woven, / When seeking out the partner of his life! / Thus, where he can his prudence exercise, / And in consistency with Heaven’s just laws, / His part perform, such laws his wisdom, which, / According to such laws obey’d, rewards / With comfort, and domestic joys in store!
- But, being thus aroused, life has been seen; / As such has waked the music of the heart, / In holy numbers, of seraphic strains, / Or other energies, which dormant lay / In idleness, have call’d been to good deeds, / In searching Nature’s treasures, to advance / The cause of science, and of Truth! Such things, / Which much affect love’s pride, have been the source, / In ancient times, whence revolutions sprung / To set in order wry affairs of state! / Love-crossings have made heroes on the field, / And on the main, ’mid battle’s direst work: / And such have work’d a change on simple man, / By rousing him to independent mind.
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Liberty":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.