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# The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler/The Soldier's Prayer
## The Soldier's Prayer

Garden, in his “Anecdotes of the Revolution,” when describing the sufferings of the army, mentions the circumstance of a soldier having earnestly entreated permission to visit his family, which was refused, on the ground that the same favour must be granted to others, who could not be spared without weakening the army, whose strength was already reduced by sickness. He acquiesced in the justice of the denial, but added, that to him refusal would be death. He was a brave and valuable soldier, and apparently in health at the time;—but his words were verified.
I care not for the hurried march through August's burning noon, Nor for the long cold ward at night, beneath the dewy moon; I've calmly felt the winter's storms, o'er my unshelter'd head, And trod the snow with naked foot, till every track was red!
My soldier's fare is poor and scant—'t is what my comrades share, Yon heaven my only canopy—but that I well can bear; A dull and feverish weight of pain is pressing on my brow, And I am faint with recent wounds—for that I care not now.
But oh, I long once more to view my childhood's dwelling-place, To clasp my mother to my heart—to see my father's face! To list each well-remember'd tone, to gaze on every eye That met my ear, or thrill'd my heart, in moments long gone by.
In vain with long and frequent draught of every wave I sip,— A quenchless and consuming thirst is ever on my lip! The very air that fans my cheek no blessed coolness brings,— A burning heat or chilling damp is ever on its wings.
Oh! let me seek my home once more—for but a little while— But once above my couch to see my mother's gentle smile; It haunts me in my waking hours—'t is ever in my dreams, With all the pleasant paths of home, rocks, woods, and shaded streams.
There is a fount,—I know it well—it springs beneath a rock, Oh, how its coolness and its light, my feverish fancies mock! I pine to lay me by its side, and bathe my lips and brow, 'T would give new fervour to the heart that beats so languid now.
I may not—I must linger here—perchance it may be just! But well I know this yearning soon will scorch my heart to dust; One breathing of my native air had call'd me back to life— But I must die—must waste away beneath this inward strife.
# The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler/The Sylvan Grave
## The Sylvan Grave

Lay me not, when I die, in the place of the dead, With the dwellings of men round my resting place spread, But amidst the still forest, unseen and alone, Where the waters go by with a murmuring tone; Where the wild bird above me may wave its dark wing, And the flowers I have loved from my ashes may spring; Where affection's own blossom may lift its blue eye, With an eloquent glance from the place where I lie. Let the rose and the woodbine be there, to enwreath A bright chaplet of bloom for the pale brow of death; And the clover's red blossom be seen, that the hum Of the honey-bee's wing, may for requiem come: And when those I have loved, ‘midst the changes of earth, The clouds of its sorrow, its sunshine of mirth, Shall visit the spot where my cold relics lie, And gaze on its flowers with a tear-moisten'd eye— Let them think that my spirit still sometimes is there, My breath the light zephyr that twines in their hair, And these flowers, in their fragrance, a memory be, To tell them thus sweet was their friendship to me.
# The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler/The Slave
## The Slave

It was a glorious sunset hour:—a scent Of rich perfume, from many a twisted wreath Of summer blossoms, clustering in their wild And free profusion, ‘neath a southern sky, Came on the evening breeze, and streams went by With a glad tone, and the hush'd birds came forth From the thick woods, and lifted up the voice Of their hearts’ mirthful music. Painted wings Were fluttering on the breeze, and the bees’ hum Made a glad melody.—
At a hill's foot, Beside a gushing stream, and ‘neath a clump Of close embowering trees, there stood a cot, At whose low door a mother sung to rest, With a sad lullaby, her infant boy.
I.
These southern climes are bright, are bright, With their gorgeous summer flowers! But I would my head might rest to-night In my own loved native bowers: They say this land is proudly blest All other lands above, But afar from here is the spot, that best In the wide, wide world I love.
II.
It may want the perfumed airs of this, It may want the glorious clime— But there is the thought of all the bliss Of my happy childhood's time. Better to roam ‘neath burning skies, Upon wastes of desert sand, Than to load the air with slavery's sighs, And to wear on your heart its brand.
III.
Rest, love, and sleep—for thine infant years Are a dream that knows no sorrow; Too soon wilt thou waken to bitter tears, When manhood shall come like the morrow. Rest, love, rest!—for thou know'st not yet, What a fearful doom is o'er thee! That the name of slave on thy brow is set, And a life of woe before thee.
# The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler/The Slave's Appeal
## The Slave's Appeal

Christian mother! when thy prayer Trembles on the twilight air, And thou askest God to keep, In their waking and their sleep, Those whose love is more to thee Than the wealth of land or sea, Think of those who wildly mourn For the loved ones from them torn!
Christian daughter, sister, wife! Ye who wear a guarded life— Ye, whose bliss hangs not, like mine, On a tyrant's word or sign, Will ye hear, with careless eye, Of the wild despairing cry, Rising up from human hearts, As their latest bliss departs?
Blest ones! whom no hands on earth Dares to wrench from home and hearth, Ye whose hearts are shelter'd well, By affection's holy spell, Oh, forget not those for whom Life is naught but changeless gloom, O'er whose days of cheerless sorrow, Hope may paint no brighter morrow.
# The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler/The Sold
## The Sold

I'll to the dance! what boots it thus, To brood o'er ills I cannot quell? Amid the revel shout of mirth, My bitter laugh shall mingle well.
I've toil'd beside my mates to-day, To-night we'll join in seeming glee; But when we part, with morning's light, For aye, that parting glance will be.
I will not go!—this fire within, Would choke me with its smother'd flames! How could I tell the dear ones there, Of that detested tyrant's claims?
I could endure the fetter's weight, That I have borne with them so long,— But not to wear a stranger's chain, And crouch beneath a stranger's thong.
Yet this must be my morrow's fate! To part with all that gave my doom, Dark as it was and desolate, A ray of light amidst its gloom.
To bear the scourge, to wear the chain, To toil with wearied heart and limb, Till death should end my lengthen'd pain, Or worn old age my senses dim:—
This have I borne, and look'd to bear, All bitter as such lot must be; But drearier still my life must wear, Beneath a stranger's tyranny.
Alas! 't would be a happier lot, If, ere to-morrow's doom shall come, My woes and wrongs were all forgot, Amid the darkness of the tomb.
# The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler/The Sugar-Plums
## The Sugar-Plums

No, no, pretty sugar-plums! stay where you are! Though my grandmother sent you to me from so far; You look very nice, you would taste very sweet, And I love you right well, yet not one will I eat.
For the poor slaves have labour'd, far down in the south, To make you so sweet and so nice for my mouth; But I want no slaves toiling for me in the sun, Driven on with the whip, till the long day is done.
Perhaps some poor slave child, that hoed up the ground, Round the cane in whose rich juice your sweetness was found, Was flogg'd, till his mother cried sadly to see, And I'm sure I want nobody beaten for me.
So grandma, I thank you for being so kind, But your present, to-day, is not much to my mind; Though I love you so dearly, I choose not to eat Even what you have sent me by slavery made sweet.
Thus said little Fanny, and skipp'd off to play, Leaving all her nice sugar-plums just where they lay, As merry as if they had gone in her mouth, And she had not cared for the slaves of the south.
# The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler/The Sunset Hour
## The Sunset Hour

No! I have not forgotten yet the gentle sunset hour, That comes with such a soothing touch, to shut the brightleaved flower; Nor have I yet forgotten those, who shared its light with me, Amidst a scene I fondly love, though distant far it be.
A gleaming of its parting light is lingering even now, With dim and faded brilliancy, around my lifted brow; While memory flings aside the veil that hangs o'er parted things, And drives the shadow from the past, before her glancing wings.
I seem to see thee, gentle friend, before me even yet! So meekly in thy wonted place, beside the casement set, With calm still brow and placid eye across the landscape bent, Where all of nature's varied charms are beautifully blent.
The gliding stream, the low white mill, the hill upswelling high, With its few crowning forest-trees so painted on the sky; The vine-hung crag, the shadowy wood, the fields of tufted maize, And emerald meadow-slopes, that gleam beneath the sunset rays.
In sooth, it is a lovely scene; alas! that some as fair, Man's lawless selfishness should make the home of dark despair. That ‘midst glad nature's purity, the bending slave should tread, And proud oppression o'er the earth a waste of anguish spread!
Hath God's rich mercy form'd the earth so beautifully bright, For man to wrap his brother's soul in gloominess and night? That all its charms must be unseen, its loveliness unfelt, By eyes and hearts all dimm'd and broke by cruelty and guilt.
No! never hath he meant that those, within whose forms are shrined The rich and deep capacities of an undying mind, Should ‘neath a brother's foot be crush'd, be loaded with his chains, And drain, to feed his riot waste, the life-blood from their veins.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Ritter, August

Edition of 1905. See also August Ritter (civil engineer) on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
RIT'TER, August (1826—). A German civil engineer, born at Lüneburg, and educated at the Polytechnic Institute at Hanover, and at Göttingen. He was a practicing engineer for some time, in 1856 became teacher of mechanics and construction of machinery at Hanover, in the Polytechnic Institute, and in 1870 became professor in the School of Technology at Aix-la-Chapelle. He is best known as the author of Ritter's method of reckoning arches for bridges and roofs. He wrote Elementary Theory and Calculation of Iron Bridges and Roofs (German, 1863, 5th ed. 1894; Eng. by Sankey, 1879), Lehrbuch der technischen Mechanik (1864; 7th ed. 1896), Lehrbuch der Ingenieur-Mechanik (1874-76), and Lehrbuch der analytischen Mechanik (2d. ed. 1883).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Ritter, Frédéric Louis

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RITTER, Frédéric Louis (1834-91). A German-American composer, born in Strassburg. He studied under Moritz, Hauser, and Schletterer. In 1856 he came to the United States, resided for some years in Cincinnati, where he founded the Cecilia and Philharmonic societies, and in 1861 removed to New York City and conducted the Sacred Harmonic and Arion societies. In 1867 he organized a musical festival, which he conducted in New York, and was soon after appointed professor of music at Vassar College, which post he held till his death. He published many songs, orchestral, church, and pianoforte music, and several musical works, including History of Music (1870-74), Music in England (1883), and Music in America (1883). He died in Antwerp.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Ritter, Heinrich

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RITTER, Heinrich (1791-1869). A German historian of philosophy. He was born at Zerbst, Anhalt, November 21, 1791; studied theology and philosophy at Halle, Göttingen, and Berlin, and in 1824 was created professor extraordinarius at Berlin University. In 1833 he accepted a call
to the university at Kiel, and went thence in 1837 to Göttingen. His great work, Geschichte der Philosophie (Hamburg, 1829-53; 2d ed., vol. i.-iv., 1836-38), is still of value. In addition he wrote works on logic, metaphysics, and ethics. Ritter was largely influenced by Schleiermacher. He died February 3, 1869.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Ritter, Karl

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RITTER, Karl (1779-1859). An eminent German geographer. He was born at Quedlinburg, Prussia, in 1779, and was educated in the famous school of Salzmann at Schnepfenthal and at Halle University. His earliest geographical studies were printed in a paper published for the young, and attracted wide attention. His six maps of Europe were published in 1806 and his Geography of Europe, in two volumes, five years later. In 1816 he completed in Berlin the first volume of Die Erdkunde, his monumental geographical work, and a part of it was published in the following year. The whole of the first volume did not appear until 1832, and the following volumes were issued from the press in rapid succession. Die Erdkunde is the fullest encyclopædia of geographical lore. In this work Ritter unfolded and established the treatment of geography, as a study and a science, which has been indorsed and adopted by all geographers. He presented the earth's surface in its relations to nature and to man and as the foundation of the study of the physical and historical sciences. All the physical geographies of to-day profoundly show the influence of Ritter's writings. His position as a teacher became as eminent as his rank as a geographer. Many of Ritter's writings were printed in the Monatsberichte of the Berlin Geographical Society, and in the Zeitschrift für allgemeine Erdkunde. His Geschichte der Erdkunde und der Entdeckungen (1861), Allgemeine Erdkunde (1862), and Europa (1863) were published posthumously. Some of his works have been translated into English by W. L. Gage: Comparative Geography (1865), and The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula (1866). Consult the Life by W. L. Gage (Edinburgh, 1867) and Kramer (Halle, 1864; 2d ed. 1875).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Rittenhouse, David

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RIT'TENHOUSE, David (1732-96). An American astronomer and maker of astronomical
instruments, born in Pennsylvania. When 13 years old, he inherited a small library containing a few works on mathematics and among them Newton's Principia. In 1751 he adopted clock-making as a profession. He soon established a reputation as an astronomer and instrument-maker of unusual ability, and in 1763 was engaged to determine the boundary line since known as Mason and Dixon's line, for which he used instruments of his own construction. He was subsequently called upon to settle the boundaries between New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and several other States. Soon after he made two orreries, one for Princeton College and one for the University of Pennsylvania. Rittenhouse was appointed by the American Philosophical Society to observe the transit of Venus, June 3, 1769. After 1770 he lived in Philadelphia, and was a member of the convention that framed the first State Constitution. He also served as the first State Treasurer (1777-89) and director of the Philadelphia mint (1792-95). He was professor of astronomy in the University of Pennsylvania (1779-82), and was a member of many learned societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of London, and the American Philosophical Society, of which he was president after Franklin's death (1791). Most of his scientific papers appeared in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Consult the Memoir by William Barton (1813).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Robinson, Therese Albertine Luise

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ROBINSON, Therese Albertine Luise (pen-name Talvi, composed from the initials of her maiden name) (1797-1870). A cosmopolitan authoress, daughter of Prof. Ludwig H. von Jakob. She was born at Halle, Germany, lived for a time with her father in Russia; married (1828) Prof. Edward Robinson (q.v.). the American biblical scholar; accompanied him to the United States, where she studied the languages of the aborigines. Mrs. Robinson wrote extensively both in English and in German. Among her publications are German translations (under the signature Ernest Berthold) of Scott's Black Dwarf and Old Mortality (1822); Psyche, a volume of tales (1824); a German translation of Servian folk-songs (1825-26); Charakteristik der Volkslieder germanischer Nationen, (1840); Die Unechtheit der Lieder Ossians (1840); Die Colonisation von Neu-England (1847); tales in German — Heloise, Life's Discipline, and The Exiles, translated into English by her daughter (1850-53); a volume of reviews, entitled Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations (1850); Fifteen Years, a Picture of the Last Century (1870). Her Gesammelte Novellen appeared in two volumes in 1874.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Ritter, Paul

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RITTER, Paul (1829—). A German architectural painter and etcher, born at Nuremberg. He was deaf and dumb from the fourth year of his life. A pupil of Heideloff, he engraved for publishers in Berlin, Stuttgart, and Nuremberg. About 1870 he took up painting in oil and acquired considerable reputation with his interiors and street views of Nuremberg, richly supplemented with historical figures, such as “Interior
of Church of St. Lawrence” (1874); the “Schöne Brunnen” (1880); “Entry of Procession with the Crown Jewels into Nuremberg in 1424” (1883, City Hall, Nuremberg); “Entry of Gustavus Adolphus in 1632” (1886); “Emperor Matthias Leaving the Kaiserburg in 1612” (1890); and “Monument of Saint Sebaldus.” In 1888 the title of royal professor was conferred on him. His brother Lorenz (1832—), born at Nuremberg, pupil of Heideloff, also painted (chiefly in water colors) and etched numerous architectural views in his native city and some subjects from North Italy.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Rittershaus, Emil

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RITTERSHAUS, rĭt'tẽrs-hous, Emil (1834-97). A German lyrist, born at Barmen. His poetry, marked by simple feeling, fine diction, and original matter, won great popularity. The best known of his works are: Gedichte (1856; 8th ed. 1891); Am Rhein und beim Wein (1884; 3d ed. 1893); Buch der Leidenschaft (1886); and In Bruderliebe und Brudertreue (1893).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Robinson, Edward

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ROBINSON, Edward (1794-1863). An American biblical scholar, born at Southington, Conn. He graduated at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., in 1816. Later he studied at Andover, Mass., and at Halle and Berlin. On his return to the United States he was made professor extraordinary of sacred literature at Andover; but in 1833 his health broke down and he moved to Boston, where he remained until 1837, when he was appointed professor of biblical literature in Union Theological Seminary. This office he continued to hold until his death. He twice traveled in Palestine, in 1838 and again in 1852, with the famous missionary the Reverend Eli Smith. The result of their first visit was published in a work entitled Biblical Researches in Palestine and Adjacent Countries (3 vols., Boston and London, 1841; German ed., Halle, 1841). The work was republished in 1856 with some additions after the second visit. He edited and translated Buttmann's Greek Grammar (1823; 3d ed. 1851); Gesenius' Hebrew Lexicon (1836; 5th ed. 1854); Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament (1836; 2d ed. 1847); Greek Harmony of the Gospels (1845; 2d ed. 1851); English Harmony of the Gospels (1846). He founded the Biblical Repository in 1831 and edited it for four years. In 1843 he established the Bibliotheca Sacra. Consult Hitchcock, The Life, Writings, and Character of Edward Robinson (New York, 1863).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Ritter, Henry

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RITTER, Henry (1816–53). A Canadian genre painter, born at Montreal. He studied under Gröger in Hamburg and under Karl Ferdinand Sohn at Düsseldorf. Among his chararteristic and finely colored episodes from the life of sailors and fishermen, showing the influence of Rudolf Jordan, the most prominent are: “Braggart in Sailor's Tavern” (1841); “Offer of Marriage in Normandy” (1842, Leipzig Museum); “Drowned Son of the Pilot” (1844, Ravené Gallery, Berlin); “Poacher Before Justice of the Peace” (1847), his largest painting; “Prairie Fire” (1851, Kunsthalle, Hamburg); “The Son's Last Letter” (1852, Kunsthalle, Bremen); and “Middy's Sermon” (1853, Cologne Museum).
# The Rescue/Part IV

PART IV.
THE GIFT OF THE SHALLOWS
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