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Poetry: Peace On Earth

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Day
24
Month
November
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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mV TH US 1.0NGING? A BT LOGKKLLOY. l)í viiy ihus lohgihg, ihus foreVer r-tghihg, „ For the fr off, unnttair.ed, and dim; Whilc tlie bcaütiful, all round thfe lying, - Offers up its !bl", perpetual hjmn. Vc.uUst ÍK8ÍÍ listen to its g'ehlle tpnöbinp, se All thy rc8tlct8 yrarnings it oliUl ütill: h tetf nd li'óvverilnü Intlon beë dre prtachinir, t flline Öwn spHferb, tho' humbie, first to fill. h Êoor ihacd Ihou nitist boj if around tl be TUou nb ray of lile niid j-iv cii-L tlirow; tf no Mlken erd ófM'ó hatii KeintiH tlee To sotne üulb Woriil tlirougu tveal and Koe. s jj tf nö deur eyes thy furid love can b-ighien- No fond voice atisvVbr to tlilne own; !f no brolher's sorrow tliu'il fcatist li;n;eH, By doily pythputhy and géHtle lohb.. Nol by dèetl-i thaf Viri ilio crowd'a nppl.üsèis Not by woiks tfiai givé thre wörld-rtnoii, , Ñot by nhrtyrdorti; Hr ♦min'cd ërore?, CatiHt tho Vin alid vvear the mtnortal ( crowri. í)uily ítnifrliriL, '.tioiíjH Hhlbvod alid lnèly, Every day a ruh regard itl givJ ThoJ wilt finM by liearty sirKinjj i.iily, And ruly lovin, thou cant tmlyjlivè.trom ino iuii.nu i uwii A SCÈNE IN TUE RüSSÍaÜ AÍIMY. ["The scène herè desiiribed," rëm'arks Wie Gaiètiëdes TriMnemix- m whicli ihis first nppeared- "is èxngfjëHilèd neiiher in i: delails; nor i ts horrors. We reíate t exactly ás told to Us by an eye fitness."] On the 22d of May, 1641, ohe ó'fthose baltalions which om tio thé Colonial rnililary forcé, which the Russinn Govèrnirforit has recen! f J' cstablished at Novgorod. hdlJ assemblèd upan the field adjoining the vast barracks, cotfstructed not many years si nee W the oldest and most lónely p'afi of the City, m1 ff ffb'm the Chürch of St. Sophia. ín front o; the bnttniioh, which was fórmed vith that hiechaniöal reülafity and minute precisión, which tüfns the Rüssian PJct soldier into such an admifalile autotnalon, stood tJonëral L-eit He was a man bout fiifiy, remurkab'le for his rigid bearing, sun-burnt complexión; his lafge; cold. grey èyes; and Ihfjë.xiblc firmnè'sa; Me was aisö kno'-n throughout tliearhiy for his bravery; of which hè hád gifren brilliant nioofs n the Persian and Turkish Öampaigns: but, eillier that the bitter remembrahce of domestic misfortunes had soüred His disp'oáition, or that his hcart had bcdotrle hardened by the frequent applicatiolri from inexorable necessiiy, of a discipline degrddiri irt principie, nnd too b'ften ho'frible in its efi'ects, Gëriëral L ' 'cffhhd becomö an object df dread iö the sóldiers; and seldorri d ddy passed ihat he did not signaliiée his aüthority by acts of such criiehy, that they might wel] bc ter'med ferocious. And yet, it irtn ■ell knovn that this man ëhtertained r Öevóted áttdchm'ent towards the daüghter ö'f one of his öld cotripanions in arms rhö had fallen in the Poiish war. H had taken honrlö tliiá young hac ediicatëd her with a fáther's love, ani they were now inseparable. This afiec iiöh formed the bf igHt shadë in the öther tvise dark chafacter of this Uussian offi eer. Although1 Rill of gratitiïde tö th General for hte tënderness and care, thi gentle g"irl, hom ihë aöldiers had givei the sweet suïnamë df Solowiova, [Nighl ingale] feit no less irt his presèhce th unconqüerable restraint which Mis brie speech, his mpöriaüs phySitfgnomy, lii cold and gloomy m'anhër, caused in al around. The day on which the efrènts we artö please her foster father rtas present a evéry parade, and all the eSeröises - wa seated before a window of the barracks looking out upon the sccne when sudden

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Signal of Liberty
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