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# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Maxima Debetur Pueris Reverentia (Amédée Pommier)

MAXIMA DEBETUR PUERIS REVERENTIA.
AMÉDÉE POMMIER.
Faith, loyalty, modesty, innocence, Are like a precious essence in the heart: Should the least shock the phial's crystal crack, The perfume vanishes at once away. Oh, let us leave the child his candour fresh! This velvet bloom that spreads on prune and peach, This soft down, this virginity of fruit Which the least friction utterly destroys, This vapour varnish on the gilded grape, This light upon the picture, thrown from heaven, This coloured dust upon the butterfly, This thin and subtle veil that longs to leave, This network delicate that a breath would melt, A covering frail, so frail and tinted so With interwoven shades that cross and blend, One fears to touch it, even with the thought.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/My Vocation (Béranger)

MY VOCATION.
BÉRANGER.
A waif on this earth, Sick, ugly, and small, Contemned from my birth And rejected by all. From my lips broke a cry, Such as anguish may wring, Sing,—said God in reply, Chant, poor little thing.
By Wealth's coach besmeared With dirt in a shower, Insulted and jeered By the minions of power, Where—oh where shall I fly? Who comfort will bring? Sing—said God in reply, Chant, poor little thing.
Life struck me with fright— Full of chances and pain, So I hugged with delight The drudge's hard chain; One must eat,—yet I die, Like a bird with clipped wing, Sing—said God in reply, Chant, poor little thing.
Love cheered for a while My morn with his ray, But like a ripple or smile My youth passed away. Now near Beauty I sigh, But fled is the spring! Sing—said God in reply, Chant, poor little thing.
All men have a task, And to sing is my lot— No meed from men I ask But one kindly thought. My vocation is high— 'Mid the glasses that ring, Still—still comes that reply, Chant, poor little thing.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Ni Haine Ni Amour (Henri Heine)

NI HAINE NI AMOUR.
HENRI HEINE.
Of girls unkind, though fair and stately, This neighbourhood may count a score; From their hate I have suffered greatly, But from their love, oh more, still more.
In my brimming cup they have lately Their poison shed, as oft before, Hate-potions sometimes, and then straightly Love-philters, that distress me sore.
But she whose name I love innately, Who gave the wound that struck the core, Moves tranquil on her way sedately, Nor hate, nor love, she bears or bore.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Napoléon le Petit (Les Châtiments, Victor Hugo)

NAPOLÉON LE PETIT.
AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.
VICTOR HUGO.
(Les Châtiments.)
His grandeur dazzled history; The god of war, A star he was,—a mystery, To nations far. All Europe at his nod inclined With terror dumb. Art thou his ape? March, march behind, Tom Thumb, Tom Thumb.
Napoleon by the cannon's light, Through smoke and cloud, Guided across the hottest fight The eagle proud. He forced his way in, at Arcole And out, with drum— There's gold for thee, regale thy soul, Tom Thumb, Tom Thumb.
Berlin, Vienna, Moscow,—all Before him bent, Not more an angel could appal On vengeance sent.
Ho! Forts and fields! Ho! Kings and churls! 'Tis he—succumb! But thou,—for thee, lo, here are girls, Tom Thumb, Tom Thumb.
He rode o'er mountains and o'er plains. And held confined Within his palm, the guiding reins Of all mankind. His glories would the navies sink So vast their sum! For thee—see blood, come run and drink, Tom Thumb, Tom Thumb.
Dark, dark archangel—but he fell! Earth felt the sound, And ocean opened by a spell Its gulf profound. Down headlong—but his name through time Shall overcome— Thou too shalt drown, but drown in slime, Tom Thumb, Tom Thumb.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Morning Serenade (Victor Hugo)

This poem bears the initials of Toru Dutt's sister, Aru, so was possibly translated by her.
MORNING SERENADE.
VICTOR HUGO.
Still barred thy doors!—the far east glows, The morning wind blows fresh and free, Should not the hour that wakes the rose Awaken also thee? No longer sleep, Oh, listen now! I wait and weep, But where art thou?
All look for thee, Love, Light and Song; Light, in the sky deep red above, Song, in the lark of pinion strong, And in my heart, true Love. No longer sleep, Oh, listen now! I wait and weep, But where art thou?
Apart we miss our nature's goal, Why strive to cheat our destinies? Was not my love made for thy soul? Thy beauty for mine eyes? No longer sleep, Oh, listen now! I wait and weep, But where art thou?
A.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/My Normandy (Frédéric Bérat)

MY NORMANDY.
FRÉDÉRIC BÉRAT.
When all things are to hope new-born, And far the winter flies away, And on our well-loved France, each morn The sun returns with kindlier ray, When nature blooms on hill and plain, And swallows are once more in sight, I visit Normandy again, Where first these eyes beheld the light.
I've seen the hills of Switzerland, Its châlets, and its glaciers drear, I've seen Italia's sky and strand, And heard, entranced, the gondolier; But while I hailed each foreign spot, I murmured to myself—on earth A lovelier land existeth not Than Normandy, that gave me birth.
There is an age, alas! in life, When every idle dream must end, An age of introspection, rife With memories that cross and blend. When such an age arrives for me, And folds her wing, my Muse, to rest, May I behold my Normandy, The favoured land I love the best.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stuart, James (b)

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​STUART. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
James Stuart (b) was born 13 April, 1788. This officer entered the Navy, 24 Feb. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol, on board the Medusa 32, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, under whom he assisted at the capture of Monte Video and Maldonado, and took part in other operations in the Rio de la Plata. On his return to England in the summer of 1807 he joined the Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, part of the force employed in the ensuing expedition to Copenhagen; and he served afterwards, between Dec. of the same year and Dec. 1814, on the Lisbon, Mediterranean, and Home stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Minotaur 74 and Hibernia 120, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Cotton, Nymphe frigate, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, Crocus and Éclair sloops, both commanded by Capt. John Bellamy, Royal Sovereign yacht, Capts. Sir John Poo Beresford and Sir Edw. Berry, and Elizabeth 74, flag-ship of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming. While attached to the Hibernia he was lent to the Rapid 14, Lieut.-Commander Henry Baugh; and on 18 May, 1808, he was on board that vessel when she was sunk by the batteries in the river Tagus, in an attempted attack upon two feluccas. His conduct on this and on other occasions exhibited, as we learn from a certificate given to him by Lieut. Baugh, a spirit of great bravery and enterprise. He was afterwards taken in a prize belonging to the Nymphe and carried into North Bergen, where he appears to have been the first prisoner detained since the days of Admiral Wager, in the reign of Charles II. We may here mention that a testimonial bearing the signature of Capt. Clay describes him as being at that time, 1810, “a young man truly deserving promotion.” He was created a Lieutenant of the Zenobia sloop, Capt. Nich. Dobree, three weeks after he had been ordered to act as such, 23 Dec. 1814; was paid off in March, 1815; and has not been since afloat. It may be added that he was frequently, during the war, engaged in cutting out vessels along the coasts of France and Italy.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Strong, Samuel

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​STRONG. (Lieut., 1807. f-p., 13; h-p., 35.)
Samuel Strong entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Alcmène 32, Capts. Henry Digby, Sam. Sutton, Jas. Brisbane, John Ferris Devonshire, Robt. Lambert, and John Stiles; in which frigate he was for upwards of three years employed on the Channel, Baltic, and Newfoundland stations; and was present as Midshipman, under Capt. Sutton, in the action off Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801. Removing, in Jan. 1803, to L’Aigle 36, Capt. Geo. Wolfe, he assisted in that ship at the destruction, 12 July, 1804, on the coast of France, of La Charente of 20 and La Joie of 8 guns; united, too, in Aug. 1805, in Admiral Hon. Wm. Cornwallis’ pursuit of the French fleet into Brest; and took part in the ensuing Sept. in an action off Vigo, in which the L’Aigle, after an hour’s cannonade, captured one and defeated the rest of a flotilla of nine gun-boats by whom she had been attacked. In Oct. 1806 he was under the necessity of being sent to the hospital at Haslar, where he remained until March, 1807. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 19 Dec. following; and was subsequently appointed – 16 May, 1808, to the Scorpion 18, Capts. Fras. Staufell and Hon. John Gore, employed on the Plymouth and West India stations – 4 July, 1810, to the Vimiera brig, Capt. Edw. Scobell, with whom he returned home from the West Indies and was paid off 31 Aug. in the same year – 19 Aug. 1811, for about six weeks, to the Dispatch sloop, Capt. Jas. Aberdour, lying in Hamoaze – 17 Feb. 1812, to the Duncan 74, Capt. Robt. Lambert, stationed off Flushing and in the Channel – and, 10 Dec. 1813, to the Primrose 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott. In the Scorpion he contributed, 11 Jan. 1810, to the capture, beneath the fire of a battery near Basseterre, after an engagement of two hours, productive of a loss to the British of only 4 wounded, of L’Oreste French national brig of 16 guns and 110 men, 2 of whom were killed and 10 wounded; and in the ensuing month he witnessed the reduction of Guadeloupe. While attached to the Primrose, Mr. Strong, besides participating in much general service, was present, 12 March, 1814, in a mistaken action with the Duke of Marlborough King’s Packet, which occasioned the former a loss of 1 man killed and 12 wounded, and the packet of 2 passengers killed and 10 or 11 other persons wounded. He also, 25 Aug. 1814, aided in destroying, off the Savannah river, the American privateer Pike of 13 guns and a complement of 85 men, 47 of whom were on board. Since the Primrose was paid off, about Aug. 1815, he has not been afloat. Agents – Collier and Snee.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Strugnell, William Baker

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​STRUGNELL. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 31; h-p., 21.)
William Baker Strugnell was born 27 Jan. 1788, at Plymouth, co. Devon.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 Nov. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Impérieuse 38, Capt. Lord Augustus FitzRoy, with whom he continued to serve at the Cape of Good Hope, in the Sphynx 20, until May, 1799. In the following July he joined the Shannon 38, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater; and in that ship, in which he remained until April, 1802, he accompanied, as Midshipman, the expedition to Holland, and witnessed the surrender of the Dutch squadron under Admiral Storey. He was employed next on the Plymouth station, from July, 1802, until May, 1805, in the Fisgard and Naiad frigates, both commanded by Capt. Jas. Wallis, Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, and Généreux prison-ship, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Lanyon. He was then received on board the Aeolus 32, Capt. Lord Wm. FitzRoy; and on 4 Nov. 1805 he was present in Sir Rich. Strachan’s action with the four French ships-of-the-line which had escaped from Trafalgar. In June, 1809, being then on the North American station, he removed (he had assisted in the preceding Feb. at the reduction of Martinique) to the Swiftsure 74, Capt. John Conn; he went back in the ensuing Oct. to the Aeolus, commanded at the time by Lord Jas. Townshend; and in 1810 he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Atalanta sloop, Capt. Fred. Hickey. In Dec. 1811, nearly seven months after he had been superseded from the Atalanta, he joined the Malta 84, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Benj. Hallowell in the Mediterranean, where he served as Master’s Mate in the pinnace in an attack made upon the arsenal of Ciotat, near Toulon, and commanded a gun-boat on the coast of Spain in co-operation with the army under Sir John Murray. In Oct. 1813 he was again ordered to act as Lieutenant in the Pompée 74, Capt. Sir Jas. Atholl Wood. He was confirmed to that ship 18 July, 1814, but left her in the following Oct., and was subsequently employed – from Oct. 1824 until June, 1826, in the Ramillies 74, Coast-Blockade ship, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot – in 1826-7, as an Agent for Transports afloat, in which capacity he received the thanks of the Navy Board for his exertions as connected with an ​expedition to Lisbon – from June, 1827, until Aug. 1830, in command of the Swallow Revenue-vessel, on the Irish station, where his conduct in rescuing the crew of a French hrig wrecked on the Isle of Man procured him a silver medal from the Royal National Shipwreck Institution – and, from June, 1839, until June, 1844, in charge of the Admiralty Semaphores at Putney and Chelsea. He has filled the appointment, since 13 Feb. 1845, of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel.
From 1834 until 1838 Lieut. Strugnell was a Stipendiary Magistrate at Trinidad under the Act for the Abolition of Slavery. He married, 17 March, 1821, Miss Emma Bishop, and was left a widower, with nine children, in 1843.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Strover, Samuel

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​STROVER. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 20; h-p., 24.)
Samuel Strover was born 19 Nov. 1789.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 Oct. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Terrible 74, Capt. Lord Henry Paulet, with whom he served for nearly six years and eight months, the greater part of the time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Channel, off Ferrol and Cadiz, and in the Mediterranean. On the paying off of the Terrible in June, 1810, he was recommended by his Captain for promotion as a reward for his activity and general good conduct. In the course of the same month he was received as a Supernumerary Master’s Mate on board the Salvador del Mundo, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Calder at Plymouth; and while attached to that ship he was intrusted with the command of the Jackdaw tender. From July, 1811, until Dec. 1812 he served on the north coast of Spain, still as Master’s Mate, in the Unicorn 32, Capt. Geo. Burgoyne Salt. He then sailed in the Cumberland 74, Capt. Thos. Baker, for the West Indies; where, after he had been for a few months employed in the Grampus 50, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Laforey, he was successively, in July and Oct. 1813, nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Venus 32 and Marlborough 74, Capts. Mackenzie and Robt. Honyman. On his return to England in the latter ship he was presented with a commission dated 5 Feb. 1814; and in the following April he was appointed to the Pandora 18, Capts. Thos. Stamp and Jas. Kearney White, on the coast of North America. In Feb. 1815 he was so severely injured by an explosion of the small-arm ammunition that he was under the necessity of being sent to the hospital at Bermuda. He remained there three months; but it was not until the end of 1817 that his health and the use of his limbs were restored to him. Since 21 Nov. 1839 he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Strover married, 18 Feb. 1819, Elizabeth, daughter of John Bishop, Esq., of Snenton, Notts, by whom he has issue five children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stuart, James (a)

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​STUART. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 27; h-p., 12.)
James Stuart (a) died in Aug. 1847, at Jersey, aged 68.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 May, 1808, as a Supemumerai-y, on board the San Juan, guard-ship at Gibraltar. From Sept. following until March, 1811, he was employed under the flags of Sir Rich. Strachan, Hon. Robt. Stopford, and Wm. Albany Otway in the Caesar 80; he then went back for a few weeks to the San Juan; and on 30 Aug. 1814, after he had made a voyage to the Pacific in the Standard 64, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, and had served on the Mediterranean station in the Iphigenia 42, Capts. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew and Andrew King, and in the San Juan and Elizabeth under the flag of Rear-Admiral Fleeming, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Andromeda 24, Capt. Rich. Arthur. While attached, in 1809, to the Caesar, he assisted at the destruction of three French frigates beneath the batteries of Sable d’Olonne; witnessed Lord Cochrane’s celebrated attack upon the French shipping in Aix Roads; and took part in the operations connected with the expedition to the Walcheren. In the Iphigenia he was present at the surrender of Genoa in April, 1814. He was confirmed a Lieutenant of the Andromeda 11 Oct. in that year, but was paid off in Jan. 1816, and was subsequently appointed – 30 Nov. 1826 and 19 Feb. 1830, as Supernumerary, to the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, Coast-Blockade ships, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot – 16 March, 1831, as Senior, to the Barham 50, also commanded by Capt. Pigot, on particular service – 30 Aug. 1831, to the Coast Guard – 14 Oct. 1833, to the command of the Ranger Revenue-vessel – 12 Oct. 1836, again to the Coast Guard – and, 11 Jan. 1845, a second time to the Ranger. As a reward for long and active service in the Revenue he was promoted, 5 Jan. 1846, to the rank of Commander.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Strong, Joseph Thompson

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​STRONG. (Lieutenant, 1829.)
Joseph Thompson Strong entered the Navy 10 March, 1813; passed his examination in 1822; and was made Lieutenant, 27 Nov. 1829, into the Forte 44, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, on the South American station; whence he returned about the end of 1830. he has been in charge, since 14 Oct. 1836, of a station in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Strong, William

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​STRONG. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 22; h-p., 31.)
William Strong entered the Navy, 18 July, 1794, as Midshipman, on board the Glory 98, Capts. Thos. Bourmaster, Alex. Graeme, Theophilus Jones, Geo. Grey, Jas. Brine, and Thos. Wells; with whom he continued employed in the Channel, on the coast of Ireland, and in the Mediterranean, until transferred, in Aug. 1801, to the Neptune 98, flag-ship in the Channel of Vice-Admiral Jas. Gambier. He served next, from June, 1802, until March, 1805, in the Concorde 36, Capt. John Wood, in the East Indies; and he then joined the Pitt alias Salsette 36, Capts. Jas. Giles Vashon and Walter Bathurst. On 20 Jan. 1806 the latter frigate had 1 man killed and her hull much damaged by the fire of Fort Canonnier, to which she was exposed during 20 minutes, without being able to return a single gun. She subsequently, while stationed in the Baltic, made prize of the Russian cutter Apith of 14 guns and 61 men, 4 of whom were killed and 8 wounded, with the loss to the British of 1 man killed; and in July, 1809, she accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren. In the following Oct. Mr. Strong, who had obtained the rating of Master’s Mate, was received in that capacity on board the Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore at Cadiz; where, on 18 July, 1810, he was confirmed a Lieutenant, a few weeks after he had been ordered to act as such, in the Aetna bomb, Capts. John Bowker and John Fordyce Maples. From that vessel, which appears to have been very warmly engaged in the defence of Cadiz, he removed, 27 Jan. 1811, to the Wizard 16, Capts. J. Bowker, Chas. Shaw, Fairfax Moresby, Edw. Boxer, and Walter Croker. Under Capt. Moresby he was active in the suppression of piracy in the Grecian Archipelago, aided in making several prizes, was present at the reduction of Trieste, and went through much general service. He was paid off in Oct. 1815; and has not been since employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Strover, Thomas

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​STROVER. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 17; h-p., 25.)
Thomas Strover entered the Navy, 26 Aug. 1805, as L.M., on board the Prince Frederick, Lieut.-Commander Leach, lying at Plymouth; and from Feb. 1806 until Aug. 1812 was employed, almost uninterruptedly, with the late Sir Sam. Hood, on the Home, Baltic, Mediterranean, and East India stations, as Fst.-cl. Vol., Midshipman, and Master’s Mate, in the Centaur 74, Hibernia 120, Tigre 74, Owen Glendower 36, and Illustrious 74. In the Centaur he was in company, 25 Sept. 1806, with the Mars and Monarch 74’s, at the capture of four heavy French frigates from Rochefort, on which occasion Sir S. Hood lost his arm. He accompanied also the expedition of 1807 against Copenhagen; beheld, in Dec. of that year, the surrender of Madeira; assisted, in conjunction with the Implacable 74, at the capture, 26 Aug. 1808, in sight of the whole Russian fleet, near Rogerswick, of the 74-gun ship Sewolod, after a close and furious conflict, in which the Centaur lost 3 killed and 27 wounded, and the enemy 180 killed and wounded; and in Aug. 1809 was engaged, under Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, in the attack upon Walcheren. On 18 Aug. 1812, being then on the East India station, he was nominated (he had been promoted at home on 7 of that month) Acting-Lieutenant of the Samarang 16, Capt. Wm. Case. He continued in the East Indies in the latter vessel, and in the Minden 74, bearing the flag of Sir S. Hood, and Theban 36, Capt. Sam. Leslie, until the early part of 1816, when he returned to England and was paid off. His next appointments were – 17 Sept. 1821 and 27 Nov. 1822, to the Carnation 18 and Tamar 26, Capts. John Edw. Walcott and Thos. Herbert, both on the Jamaica station, whence he came home in Aug. 1823 – and, 10 Jan. 1824, for about two years, to the Active 46, Capts. Andrew King and Robt. Rodney, on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations. In Aug. 1846 he joined the Poictiers 72, Capt. Sir Thos. Bourchier, guard-ship at Chatham; and, since 24 Sept. following, he has been employed as Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel.