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 Thcat (ktr out i greet yon. 
 Entice ' by the fkr muaio of theae rocka. 
 Each ia peculiar, individual, charming, i' ,. 
 Excuaa me, girla, for I muat introduce you. 
 
 To the myiterioua Harper of the rooka 
 
 AdeUa, proud but honeat-^U a prinoeaa ; 
 What raven ringleta thoae (kir ahouldera klatlng I 
 Aurella ruby^crownad, with witching glancea, 
 And roawite Upa meUilluouf with aong. 
 Emily— orba of deep detecting hasel, 
 Diatingijiah^, racy, treaaea richly brown. 
 Now ae« and not admire anoh lorelineaa ! 
 fltella— O tr«mu]6ua atar of eve, enahrined 
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 On mnii, B4t w« judg* of th« dMorvinf 
 By innatA mutlon— •omething in our bo«om«, 
 laatructiftK ua m by a hlddao pre«eUa««. 
 And prompting to kind acta— th« overlloir 
 Of p«nt up pity. Peril imintn«nt 
 Strongly attracU ua, nervra ufkraaptotiva 
 Of advantltioua inaqualitioa. 
 
 '' To rueful avenuea of pain and apualor. 
 We come with liopeful pledgoa and ralit^* 
 Wa miniater to gtief and diacontant. 
 To thoaa whoaa daya are irkiome. and the glor; 
 
 ' Of time oppreaafd with ahadow and eolipaa. 
 Il ia proud luxury to ae«k and atdccour. 
 With winning worda, with oarai awUt winged 
 and glowing. 
 
 JMTo oome for reaeua.and with kind aaaault 
 Would hraak tha hermit chain of aoiit^de. 
 And lead th^ aoUtary back to lift. 
 
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 Beautifiil Tiaion of riohgolden treaa^, < i. 
 
 And MijtCot liquid radniioa richly blue. 
 
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 Tbit troop In bert tcr pititeii ■torm and cupttir*. 
 ' tn • ▼nnquiibcd wt Ittd forth in tilktn chtltit. 
 
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 Tbt gateway of that putt which limlta you } 
 Wt know that paat is noble, und wo dream 
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 4n mecitges of kindncie, in oompeneeting lofO. 
 iva teem to catch the rapturt of the pof* 
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 And aooa thcro wan a aanguinary contest ? 
 Now we must have a war!<on)( — But poor Huuli'"- 
 Ah, you wore in it — a dlMtinguiMhed leadur, 
 Mold and victorious ? Now all ears wo listen. 
 
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 I) jar Klna. do you dream tuch thinga are funny? 
 Know you not they are judgements for our aim ? 
 How we forgot our Maker the great God, 
 To whom we owe all love and fealty ; 
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 Ah — ycR — But 1 imbibe the honey only, 
 J a it like the hummingbird, and shun the briars* 
 Focjl for past sulforing, but prefer to lepe it. 
 Tha brant of fury and the dreadful carnage, 
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 8wRBT Frieiids, bythoicel never lifted spear. 
 But in defence of life and right I armed. 
 And to protect our sacred homes I fought. 
 Who could do else,' and then what scenes ensue. 
 Hard- to forget. And, Edna my gay girl. 
 Your playM innocence* must now atone. 
 A merry heart like ydujs that laughs at strife, . 
 Is guiltless of the attitude of wrong. 
 And may you never witness ills so bitter. 
 The outwalk terrible of lawless greed. 
 
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 A troop iiwept down upon our peaceful hamlet. 
 Invasion unprovoked. And E;lna, no^v 
 Some battle aonga may pleaae you. 
 
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 Deep in its cutting it darkens the sky. / 
 And roaring and torn at last sparklii'^ anO^pib,/^.- ,_| 
 Is the torrent that onlors the lake of the vale. -0%^. 
 
 The eagle— oh makes it a gory neat, 
 When it filches the lamb from its timorous rest ? 
 But the wolf— \| th» wolf a beast of prey ? 
 Up-up-anJ report from that evil day I » 
 
 This night— is it sullen or gusty or blUck ? 
 No stars in the heavens, of rain no lack ? 
 Not so, for it blooms in the fair full moon. 
 In the^splendor of heaveti in the glory of June. 
 
 But destruction whoops and the passage is woe. 
 Up-up-quickly arm— 'tis the tramp of the foe I 
 And porish accjwst if thou fear to blond . 
 Thy life Witt the dust for a righteous end. 
 
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 O tli4e are fearful words l Is war so awful ? 
 
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 a/y thoughltful Edna, there is very much 
 things most dreadful and deplorable. 
 
 

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 Swift rollB ihoio'tr. A;;aln we Htcm tho O'.iBot. 
 
 BiglUl, beyond me. italk* tho awful pa«tt 
 
 Tlii pale moon b hixh o'er tho vile of Kftthgaf, 
 l>08e giant hilU h^tho in the soft falling ray ; 
 And phantom like c^mcs on my gnzo an I look. 
 The gleaming white rock p4ak of Mariadnook. 
 
 Oh» Mariadnook. art thou culm in (hU-nf^it? 
 Shall thy stern cliffa not move at the horrible sight. 
 Shall thy high peak uplift nobly glorious as ever. 
 While thy torrent runs rod with the life of Edcver ? 
 
 One cloud pearl dissolves in the azure on high. 
 Lake Lola embosoms* the earth and the sky. 
 Soft slumber the forests embathod in dim lifht. , 
 Nq I nothing shall startle the neaco of this night; 
 
 But louder than murmurs of summer shrunk rills 
 A struggle pulsating drifts down from the hills, 
 Where the swift rushing Mcrothon Ilin's split rock 
 Kobes thinly in mist-as it flees from the shock. 
 
 Fair valleyi protected by mountains profound. 
 So strongly, impregnably belted Ground, 
 With picturesque Lola in native array : 
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 O generoua valley, while atrong htUa dolcnil ? 
 See ahield Mpreadtng Lola aubllme in denpluy, 
 EnchantiDg «nd winning tweet yakpfKathgtiv. 
 
 Huih-fell on my ear from yon ateep wood a aoutui? 
 Again-* tie a wind of the night, that haa wound 
 Afar mongst the hill-topa, and apending ita flow, 
 Anon it will aink in the green w<km1. No-no 1 
 
 A gleaming of ateel on the marge of yon rill. " 
 A glancing of apeara mbving fleet from the hill I 
 ' Who are theae from the covert of black Egalite, 
 In atealth and in gloom pouring down on the night 
 
 They come dread hyenaa would bound to the glen^ 
 Full fifty fierce warriora, Tahana'a atrong men. 
 For pillage they come, unprovoked for aflray. 
 In the roar of red battle now meet them, Kathgay. 
 
 Halt t^ere hy the torrent, ye wolves of the hiU, 
 Halt now at that torrent— yea, die if ye will 1 
 Who wiU burst on the foe, put his aim to the shoek 
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 O sons of the glen shall your valley lie waste ? 
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 With nrr«».l7e unntiU'-rt nrt thou r.jUcn forovw ! 
 Attd where iluopn tlio arm of Uiy boawted Kilover? 
 
 Ia> now from the htmlct, at once al the rock, 
 HoUiin« down in thj ci.urgo with ahuricane ahock. 
 lidfVtr the prompt. ui.<l Uw t«H> i» bofort- him, 
 Tdliana-tliey tii;ttt-but a ihieia ria«» o'm hica. 
 
 A whoop on thfi m^ht, a deamon-like apring, 
 T'l » ^p '^r '»n^ >h s ^M-n-t anH kwiI^ falc.iion dng. 
 A cliach oil tiiJ *.i^>.---. •* -l*-'"*" »«.» t»»u tidu. 
 O .Uorottt, thy atreaijn with Htraiine vigor i» dypd. 
 
 A whoop from the'hilU. a roar from the wood. 
 Why 18 it, calm valor what meaiw it, brightf- 
 Tue apear U in ppiua, tno awilt falchion npcd, 
 The green earth behind ua liea groaning and red. 
 
 Who now like a acowlof the heavens sweeps past. 
 And the strong as the leaves ofUte autumn are cast? 
 A id the valiant as dry leaves of autumn are blown? 
 "lis Roland, the towering, he strides on alone. 
 
 In midst of the battle, who, dominant ever, 
 In thick of the struggle ? vehement Edever. 
 Ho meets the invaders, the rampant are quelled, 
 •Ejhe troop of destroyers at vantage are hpld. 
 
 
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 Roll, lo.r an tho mivm of M T.ih'. iwift wuvo? 
 «oar dp nobly itrikq, yo firm few of tho dell. 
 There tho loader tho Chief of tho enemy fell. 
 
 • Shall he coni as tho acourgo of a tempest again f. 
 PJaver ^0^0, never more-tho oggrewor is .lain, 
 laleda, thy atrong apeaf is fallen forever. 
 Wfcirrietor above him ii leaning ? Edevor. 
 
 Now vainly I aid thee, O friend of my life, 
 Taa arm of u clumijion falls in tho afrife. * 
 Alureth, the kind one, O heart of my heart, 
 Do [»oe thyarmnervdess, yos dropping apart. 
 
 A crag of Kedath thou didst stand in this hour. . 
 And thp torrent of baitlo broke full in its power. ' 
 And the torrent of battle fell baqk in this night 
 And it roared and it foamed from thy helmet of right 
 
 O stream of the canyon, O stony wild brook. 
 Coming down from the sullen ridged Mariadnook 
 With a glut of the brave over bank thou aft swolen 
 Incrussative surfeited blocked by the faUen. 
 
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 'Ihy frame was it ahdr and thy nam victory? 
 
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 Ilai the plumo o(thy helm turned ttnUlf from it now! 
 
 Fidever, no helmet htin dropt ftro-n thy head, 
 Thynpear U not.duUud by thu blnid it \\\* »\vj I, 
 Thy faqo han not turn'd ffom the fiioo of thy fob ; 
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 While thy Aerco foem«n full, while thy strung 
 
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 Thou art gone as a hurricane spent in its dash»— 
 A sweep ani a pathway announced by a crash ! 
 
 O torrent of Moroth, proud stream of the plain. 
 Now bur^t forth in J3wj\s un<*ulliod again ; 
 For the hour of the strife, for the contest is over, ^ 
 And golden winged peace unmolested may hover. 
 
 Oh, lake of the valley, cool stream of the hilU 
 
 The mifsion of gladness resume and fulfil : 
 
 Alas, for thoy can not ! The strife miy bo o'er, 
 But a shadow has fallen to lift never more. 
 
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 . Think you. Hj.v ft;i3 ! so very like a ronaanse ! 
 
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 W^0 I II miin, I eotilil not ho a tribm n%fi* 
 B/on in my own ilufsiiuti : no, 1 mtumIJ tlkO ftriit! 
 
 Ir.'no, O (ViptbtciU'd pifi^^on 1 ihoro-y hi »iM iioU 
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 Yii. (Itj^w a rapier, if nyeJ nhouU ba, 
 
 And lift) und liberty demanded ll* 
 
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 E ln<i, your meitlu had a ^ulHHnt ring. 
 Yut f(ir a little purdou a sad strain. 
 
 ' W'.RP for a wjrl I of clan^i^or, 
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 Tht) strife that follows angcr« 
 For which not tears atone. 
 
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 Woe, woe for its pride. 
 
 Weep for the brokeii hearted ; 
 
 Luneness of the bereaved ; 
 For tendorest frieiidfihips parted 
 For heartless ills received. 
 Alas for carthN ^lo*-y 
 \N'oe, woe for its pride. 
 
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 U it not .anihiA* to th^ .^d ayound wrK '• 
 And thiu ao ti^uoUy I rally joL 
 
 Yo. yott I .ad. moping like .oine .ulky boy ! 
 
 Mmt thora b^ .omething •tiu/to humble ui f 
 
 8 ,m. h.ng to bump the lofk/pate of prid^, 
 
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 Bear, chaar within it ; cheir tho' wearing .able.. 
 
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 Eina. I'll note thia lectori on my tabled. 
 
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 xNT .V irthele., my yvniii .eek their .olace 
 
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 flpr««dt oir«r lUb th« mirifv of Ito charm,— 
 And thu« it ought to b«. But wh«i Ood wyi. 
 If in* {§ thy \or^ on« ; if found worthy, thoa 
 Alio shall M« lh« Joy of my r«d0«m«d, 
 Th«n nil th« glory of th« etrth aac«nd«. 
 And thtnea no mmntle drup«« 
 
 I Uk not tynpathy,— — Bor can rctlil It, 
 Warm from the hearts and lips of of loveliness. 
 Even if convinced by chsrmiog eloquence. 
 My purpose of retirement shakes not. Many, 
 My friends and my compeers were slain in bsttl«« 
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 Availa not to inspire our youthful hopea. 
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 'I'hore arp two chuncoa, and but only two. 
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 Hare each a lover and acceptd lot\ 
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 Fdr your amuaement, point my preference 
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 The ftrat on^ caught ahall be the pink of all^l 
 For I admire you each", but love not either. 
 
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 Myaelf and dear Irene. Now I bethink me : 
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