The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1870-11-18
VOLUME XVI.
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Css,r Il fallen Shout!
Shout, that his sword 3 broken, lost his crown
Shout, that his bragyart hosts are put TO rout
His empire has gvBe down.
EIult - wildly a. he would have walled,
If Cssar had prevailed
That yssterd,y you feArvd him,
Whom you to-day despise,
Forget. deny;
But be no more deceived bv kingiy lies,
For what he was to al your kings sndeared
him,
As what they are finds favor in your eyes.
All why, Why
For such ss these. and he, win ye still live and
BE just-just,
What ye have done your rulers would not do
what do they care for you
Ye peoples, Who In princes put yoar trust!
What hss he don,, I say, they have not done
Made blood like water run,
In the doasc streets his dreadful cannon
swept,
Where france above her slaughtered children
weptf
Itisa way they have Who wear the crown;
Your good king shot his loving subjects down
But, though submissive, brave,
They gathered up their dead.
And. while they bore them to their honored
Coupslled him to look on with white, uncovered
head
If this, our Cesar. strobe through guilt 70
power.
If in the blood he split he built his throne,
lie did not stand alone,
For France was with him In that desperate
For. thonsh she might no, welcome the strong
hand
That aeervd her suddenly fsom the dangerous
shore,
Thereon. full driven. she had been wrecked
before,
And brought her safe to land,
She let the helm within his hand remain;
For, rent by furious fractions,
Ard weary Of Distractions,
She wanted peace again
Demanded peace, the wealth that she had lost,
And her old greatness, at whatever cost.
. -Renenber what no found her,
And what she was when her frst Caesar fell,
With Esrope armed around her,
And none to wish her we'll.
How, with their bsyonets. dripping With her
blood,
Iu kings brought bsek the kings who had Op-
pressed her,
Bot never vuce rcdressei her
And all proaounood IL good!
Too weak, they felt, 70 chain
Her giant limbs again.
That with the world had vrsstled. and might
yet
They druggcd her till she slept,
And then upon her crept,
And DER her cast net
She struggled but in vain;
But she did not forget.
And he did not forget
And when stormy wooer,
That would no longer sue her.
Ne ieaped into her arms,
Il Was that be might free her,
And that the world might see her
In her recovered charms
No trace Of tears, no fears Of tribulations,
Most beautiful, and all-pouerfal-the queen oi
all the nations
This her Cesar made her,
And this at last betrayed her;
For this has brought upon her the cOpquerins
Iavader,
Cesar h fAllen Shout,
Shout till your throats arc hoarse, and stunnet
your cars;
Fire your loud cannon. hang your banners
out
hut leave me 10 my tears,
Not DER this fallen Caesar do | weep,
Nor for the thousands whom 10 death he
led,
Not Tor your thousands In the same DARK
slcep-
weep not br the dead
veep for the unstterabie bininess
That makes Cesar possible to day,
That will not let the nations live In kindness.
And die the natural way
What though ye have one Cesar oycrthroWn'
Ye have set mp another Of your own.
What Is u. pray, TO usf
What h II to the Race
Whether the Gssl or Pruss,
The Latin or the Rus,
l. nov In C,sar's plseef
Or gooi or bad, Il matters not q jot-
They love us-love Us not
They trust us-uhen they must
They use Us. when they will;
They grind US TO the dust;
They cheat. they rob. they kill!
EIult who may. For me. must depore-
lmsst lament and pray
That dod uill bring the day
when Cssars arc no more !.
--fPpieioa's Journal.
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