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amid the stirring incidents of the battle
field, for future labor.
He was present at the battle of Sedan
and witnessed all the changing phases
of the fight. But little did he think, as
! he gazed upon the lurid grandeur of the
battle scene, and his impassiOned soul
drank in inspiration from the sublime
| spectacle-ready to breathe in living
song the emotions which swelIed with
| in his heart-that the grim messenger
| who TiOted on that CORY field was so
soon to level at his breast his DESTROY
ing darts, and hurry him also to his
eternal sleep. An, had the King Of
TerrOrs but deferred the execution of his
ineXOrable decree, how might not the
world have become indebted to the pen
of Powell for such pOrtraiture of that
historic scene as would live in the DEATH
less annals of poetic IOre-the proudest
monument of the authors genius! How
might not the hearts of the surviving
veterans of that fieTcely contested fight,
perchance at no distant future day,
have become aroused and thrilled by
the the gush of music, whose strains
would recall in all the vividness of TeaIi-
ty the bursting shell and the battle
shout, and the terrible onset of contend
ing troops which marked the varied
events of the sanguinary struggle! But
the kindling fires Of his ardent ambition
which burned still more brightly with
each successive task taken upon himself
which the most insupeTable obstacles
could not abate, were destined suddenly
to become eXGnguished by the hand of
fate, which even his indOmitabIe energy
could not arrest. During the last few
weeks of his life the admouishiug voice
oF O qEaTraor rTaccCIrufSnr, l..
solicitations of his intimate friends, who
saw but too plainly that he was fast
sinking before the ravages of disease,
had little influence in causing him to
IealiZe the critical condition in which
he was placed. All his faculties were
apparently engrOssed in one all absorb
ing thOUght-the accomplishment of
the last great work he had undertaken.
Not until his physical endurance COM
pletely failed him, and his feet rested
upon the very threshold of another
world, did he seem conscious that his
hours were numbered, and even then
he reluctantly abandoned the routine of
his self-impOsed duties, as though his
only regret on taking his final departure
from the scenes of life was the unfinish-
ed condition in which this work must
be left. Yet he surrendered himself to
the decree of the inevitable without a
and in the midst of intense
bodily suffering maintained till the last
his usual serene and cheerful DISPOSE
ton.
AS he lay upon his deathbed, Just be-
fore he drew his expiring breath, while
the death damp was gathering thickly
on his brow, he called upon the name Of
his mother; and when he saw her form
bending above him his glazing eyes
were illumed for a moment with all
their wOnted brilliancy, and as the
glad light of recognition and untold
affection rested in their depths, he soft
ly murmured, in a scarcely audible
voice, Mother, mother y With the
last accent of that sacred name still
on his lips, his eyes became
closed, and the spirit of 'Penered
Gualia' took its fiight.-BeUefontadne
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