Felicia Hemans

“ He wept—the stars of Afric's heaven
Behold his bursting tears,
E'en on that spot where fate had given
The meed of toiling years!
—Oh, happiness! how far we flee
Thine own sweet paths in search of thee! ”

“ It stands where northern willows weep,
A temple fair and lone;
Soft shadows o'er its marble sweep,
From cypress branches thrown;
While silently around it spread,
Thou feel'st the presence of the dead. ”

“ The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but him had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck,
Shone round him o'er the dead. ”

“ Without his Father's word;
That Father, faint in death below,
His voice no longer heard. ”

“ Le Chevalier D'Assas, le Decius François, étant à Closter-Kamp en 1760, posté près d'un bois pendant la nuit, avec un détachement du Regiment d'Auvergne, entra seul dans ce bois pour le fouiller, et se vit tout-à-coup environné d'une troupe d'ennemis. Ceux-ci, lui appuyant leurs baïonettes sur le poitrine le menacent de la mort s'il dit un mot. De ce mot dépendait la surprise de son poste et vraisemblablement de l'armée. D'Assas n'hésite pas; il cria, "A moi, Auvergne! ce sont les ennemis!" ”

“ Was that young faithful heart!⁠F. H.
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* Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the Admiral of the Orient, remained at his post (in the Battle of the Nile) after the ship had taken fire, and all the guns had been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. ”

“ To the babe half slumbering on her knee;
I dreamt last night of that music low—
Lady, kind lady, oh! let me go!"
"Thy mother is gone from her cares to rest,
She hath taken the babe on her quiet breast ”

“ But woe for earth! where Sorrow's tone
Still blends with Victory's!—she was gone!F. H.
↑ * The character of this monumental statue is that of the deepest serenity; the repose, however, of sleep—not the grave.—See the description in Russell's "Germany." ”