On them, hussars! Now give them rein and heel; Think of the orphaned child, the murdered sire— "Hark to the bugle's roundelay! Boot and saddle! Up and away ! Spur up till horses' flanks run gore! your Ride for the sake of human lives; Ride as ye would were your sisters and wives Boot and saddle! Away, away!" "The war that for a space did fail, With dying hand above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "Victory! Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on! Were the last words of Marmion." "O'Brien's voice is hoarse with joy, as, halting, he commands, 'Fix bay'nets-charge!' Like mountain-storm rush on these fiery bands. On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy! hark to that fierce huzza! 'Revenge! remember Limerick! dash down the Sassenagh!' Like lions leaping at a fold when mad with hunger's pang, Right up against the English line the Irish exiles sprang. The English strove with desperate strength, paused, rallied, staggered, fled: The green hill-side is matted close with dying and with dead. On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, like eagles in the sun, With bloody plumes the Irish stand: the field is fought and won." "Now, "An hour passed on ;-the Turk awoke ; That bright dream was his last ; He woke to hear his sentry shriek 'To arms! They come ! The Greek! The Greek!' He woke to die midst flame and smoke, And shout, and groan, and sabre-stroke, And death-shots falling thick and fast As lightnings from the mountain cloud; And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band ; 'Strike-till the last armed foe expires! Strike-for your altars and your fires! green graves of your sires! God-and your native land!"" Strike-for the "The combat dèepens. On ye brave, "Thou slave! thou wretch! thou coward! "Forward, the Light Brigade! Rode the Six Hundred. "Silence, how dead! darkness, how profound! I had a dream which was not all a dream: Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went, and came, and brought no day. -Byron. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo! there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth. And And every mountain and island And the kings of the earth, and the heavens departed as a scroll. were moved out of their places. the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves, and cried to the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the face of Him that sitteth upon the throne. -Bible. He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under His feet. He made darkness His secret place. His pavilion round about Him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. -Bible. But at midnight,—strange, mystic hour!--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin, then came the messenger!-Harriet Beecher Stowe. "Oh! I have passed a miserable night, -My dream was lengthened after life:— "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." "Thou breathest;—and the obedient storm is still : Less than the mote of morning's golden beam.” "It thunders! Sons of dust, in rev'rence bow! Examples of Reverence. "Father! Thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns; Thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down All these fair ranks of trees. They in Thy sun "Oh, listen, man! A voice within us speaks that startling word, And you, ye storms, howl out his greatness! Let your thunders roll like drums in the march of the God of armies! Let your |