, 1870-08-28

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| We rcise ous balanced periods; VIC point our OBJ
Ring the familiar changes on the horror OF armed
QuArIels;
Hub up cur tarnlaAet, metaphors-the bolt out Of
he hlue-
| The avalanche brnuaht down by word-sac dyke
BY stroke cut through.
TTot ous the old anssractions- and Mercy
nytng;
! Humsuny called from its work to attend the
maiIned and dying:
Industry, Il! !,Ised giant, beating powsharcs inso
Pence and Progress tramplet under foot beneath
Wars hprTJ1pg hofdea
Until ;.e e come to realize t'e huge and A'aeous
TWO mll!lou costly so.alcls sssa.stss anil attack
Eutops's two master races, the Ters.-s and the
sftne Tor the dcatn.srapp,e, to the saaste1.ng
trumpet call.
Before such grim reality our rhetoric wells its
Our lou.less prracacrs feel at aea1t that s.lence
We pacs up our stale ma1ius, push our periods
aside,
Leave our distractions on taeir pegs, oar obvious
morals hide.
And bow before the lnscrutahle, and do or best
Our n.in.Is tn even balance 'twizt new loves aud
PalntaIly 70 weigh causes and sr.ce fruits bacs to
t1elr Reetl,
In Napoleon hopes and fcars, or 10 Ptussa's grasp
and greed.
Hard % hold even temper! To resist the German
Which beats and bounds within US in fever
Al the words t q Weight and wisdom, the appeals
That e,en nc SLOW brain Of Berlin to patriot
passion move.
lard no to neeaIl The WRATH we felt on Duppers
When oyelmatched. at Pruss,a's feet robbed Den.
marx bleeding Lay.
Befcrs tnis blaze Of brotherhood that, as IRE bids
Fuses North Germany, and South, aud East, and
West In one.
Hard not to feet the ancient gyudee acrasa our
Judgments come.
That has now for centuries ranslcd rv1xt John
Bull and Jacques B0aa6mme;
Hard not tu sec the bl0od-stalns tAat Will KEEN
foakin3 through
The pages of cur annai. from crccs to Waterloo.
Hard not to think Of him who ruaae French en-
p!re once 80 Wide;
Whose ss sed asar rose In Corsica, in St Helena
Who teape'i wars whiriw4nd harvest, As vas's
wind Of woe he soweL,
And was dashed to dcat by the tempest which be
lcoseu and once 0'efTode.
Hari not to call up the shadow Of the Uncle grim
and gray,
With .asueI aaua up,a!sea In warning across the
VIII eyes that look their lesson, lips thai warn
,RF1thHut wottl-
uo1 zhey that draw The sword to smise shall per-
sh'J the sword.
Unlike nc rne1e Until now, in all but name OF
VIII the Nephew tempt the Cnclc's fa,e-!n this |
his evening h0urs
Stand as'as, grim, gray Spectre, let him pass On
Thou taean':t us desth fer him to adyance-vhat |
ISL, II he stay.
Think;st tnoa he rides for pleasure this road to
Ard the heJ he !oscs beside him, with his fathers
heart for sh.cll.
He does INT rtde because he must; TO bring the
eaFIc prey.
Last, i he Iced it not, from his boy 1. rcna tho
Crown away,
e nag Isan zsa1ea o. mighty army Tor bis boy that
And II that army Inurmur, he must nnd It its re-
Eari-- |
IN the chances Of the hat:le, the prizes OF the
strife.
The rtaudur, snl promotion tna, gt,d soldiers
Lite.
Then stand aside Thy warning may BE- vel
fucanf, bet tHhrd
esrf et s bArEc. by srectses, as CHASTITY aad less
rhesea the Liberty he numbered: there arc the
:, oat.,s he broke:
FrNEce, Tint cries. - Gire N.< cosqextsk II kx,sl
tsaT TIE yek<."
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