DEDICATION.

we shall inscribe the eternal memory of THEM upon our hearts.

We shall venerate YOU and YOUR house: we shall dedicate to YOU the first fruits and yields of our Liberty, Peace, and security, in place of New Year's gifts original: "strenarum": gifts given at the start of the year for good luck: we shall gladly confer upon YOU every kind of honor and devotion merited.

The people join their vows to these; and with burning desire awaits the happy and now approaching day: when the BELGIAN MAIDEN A personification of the Netherlands will receive YOU, the guardian of YOUR fatherland, the champion of our Union, the establisher of Peace and Liberty, and the patron of the fine Arts and