The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-06-19
From the Waco Register, TeSae'I
Franco Fallen
:, FALLEN, fallen, fallen. fallen

.ra,,on. fallen, fallen. fallen
Dryden.
Fair France that crst amidst the nations stood
,-cerIeSs in thy beauty. luatchcss In my grace
Hog ART thou deSolate In thy widowhood
Hnw hast ihou fallen from lily ''prdc OF nlacc'
ow sha, The mi as. wars Ic Inc nav
Desp-yawntns burrows pio~ed i" TIC
,nr,hN bright land AZ late with dreadful jar
Shaking III" nations, passed Ike f"''' '''
dvrous car l
Over thy sons wars Juesernent hath role" Ihs,s
Md lett the. frcnzi"1 IN ' NV psstY Untold
The record. aud VIZ mud S.9rr"" mr " n,mc
I,scrihri tnnrcnn in characters o. u,h.,' ,-,nco
Thop Furope's mistress oncr' oc'"re ""'So
glance tren,blcd: Thy proud spirit tame
s II, sr,wn ~ last The IN sirstr Of France
, eS,S the Earth. lies low, beneath the German
lance.
And He the wonder Of our Modern Age,
NH ID of Es-tn's cnu1uCrnrs-thc mighty hWg
q! Battles. Monarch grand! and statesman
whe { slcp, thy shunders '-where the clarion
ofthy proud voice s-'he power with which TO
7,hy foes INTO destruction? Thou alone
Flrs.o. Esrth's w trrloGs for thy France could
Victory from such defeat w.ca she lay prone
t:elpl. IS / G. Empire luSt-hcc Monarch, and her
Thronci
Thea. sleeping silent on the banks Of Seine.
kmi,,s; he people I. on Ia ISL loved 50 well
CCuid but one hour OF thee have comet reign,
Upon her foes, confusion. aud IL tell
The story Oh o'ermsSt ring GcainS !-Ntu
70. her strong conluc orS That IN Inc GraVc
The Rrsiter OF Conquest sleeps. lheir kheli
Had else, long since, been ruag. IN time 10 save
France AID her sons from sh ,tne. That wheiuIs
them like a wavei
And vet her fate she tempted !.-Cestiny
Prsclsirted at last against her maynard child!
She is h,r own d. stroyer thus we see,
iFoemau retiriag.l her madness Wild
ru;GS guashlugly 10 rcnd herSeif wv oes pieo
ON woes for the. sad land and Tor tEle he'ef
Worst tate could d;rest nate desire kxncd
From reason ana !rom judgment, thou must bear
Thy sc.f-infctet paneS Il anguish aud ocspaif !
Thou vert the slSva of Glory--fAtal word
To whicn tnou owsd'st Ing greatness as decline
And ut her bidding. thou the uusparing swoEd
Drew shcutingly. and toward the peaceful kline
Mar2hcd thy proud cJlumus Man may mol
combine
Even numbers against Fate IT'S thus we see
France crGshed-ihe victim OF hessci !-CCn'
The punishment of Heaven, that, frown,ngly
Thrust back The maddened hordes of -!doiatry
nobler watcaword, France, the German
PronOunces unto Earth before which thine
SINKS into insigni1cancc Loud suas,
With their Wild fervor, from their watch OF
God and our Fa.he.land!" That sound in line
Rsliied their serried ranks; and still shall be
Their inspiration. holy and benign.
tGlory and France paleS inc ficctually,
Before thy rising star, United Germany.
And, in This strength, an earnest nation stood,
To conquer Ere sdom and 8 NOBLE name;
Wrldnk her history III her own he arts h'cod,
And washing on. the record OF her shame!
Ard with he, +. CaIneu everywlcre excidlm
God aud our Faluerlanu!n has, Germans
ye,
UtteriDg a battle cry to sir the Il me
Of paLr!o hearts. have lett poStc ity
This watchword -FIcedvm's Call Proud song Q
lbcriyy
Yet from the wreck Of thy Dead Past arise
W,th 4 new hope, thou torn ana bleeding landl
And from The inSpit alton of The skies
Re .ew thy straightforward ms sef.conmaud
True TO thyself rs to Thy God, still stand.
Hencuforwald, only where the Right sh.ll tc
Tuy guide: Then Justice Shall 20 hSnd Iii han'
" 18th thy advance, aud thus the world shall see
France rise, despite her fail, 70 nnbler destiny!
j. ". DICKINSON.