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with a burst of enthusiasm, suddenly exclaimed, "It is a strange, a most interesting account! and-if I may indeed consider it authentic-I think I could almost make a pilgrimage to that grave myself. Poor, poor Jeannie Cameron!" and the young scholar, something more affected than I could have expected from his volatile demeanour, swept the corner of his glove through the watery twinkle of his eye. The narrator of the story regarded him a moment with a gentle smile, then replied,

"'Tis true I am unknown here, and you may reasonably doubt a nameless troubadour! But you all know Sir Walter Scott. Ask him, and he will verify the fact, that in his boyhood this tale was told as having just happened in Edinburgh ;-that so she wandered,died!"

-so she

With the concluding words, his countenance resumed its former placid melancholy; and bowing round to us with the courteous air of one accustomed to pay respect, and to receive it, he left the room.

"Who can he be ?" instantly passed from one to the other of us. Nobody knew with whom he had come in. The waiters declared he did not belong to the club; and from that hour, none of our party ever either saw or heard of him.

Esher.

J. P.

NAPOLEON AT THE KREMLIN.

BY MRS. CHARLES GORE.

I.

DEEPLY shadowed by the night,

On the platformed tower he stands ;

And his lonely hour is bright

With the dream of conquered lands,

Where the chosen of his legions have striven!

Where his plumed host appears,

And its soaring eagle bears

Its boast of blood and tears

Unto heaven!

II.

Hushed in silent midnight sleep

The city lies below;

And the watch-call hoarse and deep,

As he paceth to and fro,

Breaks sternly its mighty repose

Lo! kindling one by one,

A thousand lights are shown,-
Each meteor-like and lone

Brightly glows!

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With years

of danger bought,

Hath the wine-cup's wanton power

To my hardy veterans taught

The excesses of corruption and shame ? Have they bade yon flames arise

To tell the crimson skies

That the stain of outrage lies

On our name?

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Soldiers of Fame! come forth,-
Let the Empress of the North
Note your valour's daring worth
At my word!

VI.

Tear down each smoking wall
Of her city doomed to death,

Ere her towers unaided fall,

Lie bravely earthed beneath,

Where the bulwarks of her strength darkly nod!"

"Invader! stay thy hand,

Those mighty flames are fanned

By the patriots of the land,

And their God!"

VII.

Dreamedst thou with patient grief

They would look on, to see The conqueror of their chief

Issue forth his proud decree, To humble the city of their sires? Rather, let ruin come!

Let each altar-hallowed dome,

Let each loved and peaceful home
Feed its fires!

VII.

Hark! the gathering flames roar 'round

Like the ocean's troubled bed!

With a fiery show'r, the ground

And the stifling air are red ;— Blazing fragments fall fast on the tower, Where the stores of ordnance lie Prompt for death.-Invader! fly,

'Tis a nation's rallying cry

Rules the hour!

IX.

The sulphurous smoke pours down
To mock the conqueror's flight-
Flames gather like a crown

Round the Kremlin's sacred height:-
Invader! thy minions shall find
That before the blazing war

Of yon flames that shed afar
Their glorious light-thy star
Hath declined!"

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