The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-04-15
The TroIl Duke.


{ i is doubtless the finest production. which the
death Of Wellington has called forth in this
country or in Europes
THEWARDEN oFTHE cTNoUEPoRTs
a mist was driving down the British Channel,
The day was just begun,
And through the window-panes on HoOr and
PANEL,
Streamed the red Autumn sun,
It glanced on flowing flag and ripping pennOn,
Z And the white sailsOf ships; q
And, from the frowning rampant, the black
Hailed i with fsyerish lips.
Sandwich, and Romney, Hastings, Hihe,and
Dover,
4 Were all alert that day,
To see the French war-steamers speeding over
When the fog cleared away.
iSulIen and silent, and like couchant lions.
Their cannon, through che night,
Holding their breath, had watched ID grim def
ance
The sea-coast opposite.
And now they roared at drum-beat from their
stations
On every CITADEL
Each answering each, with morning salutations,
That all was well!
And.down the coast al taking up the burden,
Replied the distant forts,
AS If to summon from his sleep the Warden
And Lord Of the Cirque Ports,
Him shall no Sunshine from the fields of azure,
No drum-beat from the.wall,
No morning gun from the black forts embra-
zure
Awaken with their call.
No more, surveying with an eye impartial
The long line Of the coast,
Shall the gnunt figure Of the old FieId-Narshnl
Be seen upon his post!
For in the night, unseen, single warrior.
In somBre harness mailed,
Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer,
The rampant wall has scaled.
He passed into the chamber ef the sleeper,
The dark and silent room;
And as he entered, darker grew and deeper
The silence and The gloom.
He did not pause to parley Or dissemble,
But smote the Warden hoar;
All. what blow! that made all England trem-
HE
And groan from shore to Shore.
Meanwhile, without, the surly cannon waited,
The sun rose bright O'erhead;
Nothing in Natures aspect intmated
That great man was dead!
Cufsive Writing Of tIle Romans.
Joseph Sealiger asserted that the Romans
lad : cursiYe handwriting Some doubted
but on the whole such continued to be-
he creedof the learned down to our own time.
Behold some ten or fifteen years ago. the
Austriahs set about improving the ehaaneI
# the Danube to suit it fot steamboats,, aud
he first poins was to re-open Tfajan's tow
ng path, which often became gallery cut
,ut of thu. elf, and an but obliterated BY
lie accidents Of weather One day, in hew-
ng at this gallery, the workmen revealed
he mouth Of cavern probably natural but
sidened by Roman skill. and which had
seventeen centuries ago been the head quar-
efs Of a clerk Of the works, 81 contrasting
engineer. In this subterrahean Office were
ound The original day-books Of Trajan's
servant 4nannel. specimens the frstmod.
I'm eye ever saw--of the familiar Roman
abies- boards Of wood with hinges, enclos-
ng each Set. two 81 four pages Of quarry
mems nvmes and calculations Of wages Ip
;eribed on WazS and % slse names were not
MY il capitols, but they Vere Il running
and, actually identical with our own.
hodgh Traian' elsgk had been no elegant
IrnInar4 and accordingly the Vienna doc
ors have ever since, except when occupied
rifh sedition- been a daggers drawn j.
aong themselYes. about lie deeypherment
i The great enperor's mason and nofies
The mora IS modes We arc mol done
I'LL discoveries MOI 6flA part ST Pom
Ell hss been alsparsed probably not
wenlienth 81 eAspeun K ever Mich
las gets "a oh anfinoplc ezpec refo.
,tion me- The lfadiliono f some M
eposits aneIe asgature anong hs
ants d e sera 3 IS eoeral Ti|| lht l'l|
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