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XORMEELYON 
 
 Where arc those mighty men of worth, 
 
 Who, reared within an iron school, 
 Have shed their lustre on the earth. 
 
 And shamed full well each laughing fool? 
 Is Greece no more? Is Athens burned? 
 Is Sparta from Lycurgus turned'/ 
 Is Cato from stern virtue fled'.' 
 Has Rome now Nero tor its head? 
 () shame on those who Live in ease 
 And,fearing crafty men around. 
 Try not the mighty gods to please; 
 Bui grovel on the fill h\ ground! 
 What prize will they receive from Him 
 
 Who rule.-- the rolling orbs above? 
 Their half-closed eyes are growing din. — 
 
 They think too much of earth to Love 
 The glorious qualities of mind! 
 Ah! they brave men to vice would bind, 
 And make such as themselves! <> shame 
 ( Mi those who stain an honest name! 
 A wondrous eye beholds them all — 
 They little know how it can see — 
 And Mime from highest points may fall, 
 Ami baser than Liffo be. 
 
xot:mei-:i.yo\ 
 
 In these more modern stormy days. 
 
 When truth by some is hated still, 
 And evil men receive much praise 
 
 And govern by a sidi'ish will, 
 And gain renown by blood and fire. 
 
 A worthy scion of a line 
 Of eminence did eke aspire 
 
 By nobler, better means to shine; 
 But lie did fail, for creeping spite, 
 
 With jealous tongue and envious scheme, 
 Di ! seek his sinless soul to blight, 
 
 And mar the beauty of his dream. 
 Thus, to resistance he was driven — 
 
 Then woe to thosj who crossed his path; 
 Fo • grandest mortals oft from Heaven 
 
 Receive the fearful gift of wrath! — 
 
 This is the tale lie did relate 
 
 To one who sought him on his mount, 
 This is the story of his i'ate, 
 
 These are the facts hi' did recount: 
 
 It may he in my youth I strove 
 
 To realize such dreams of worth — 
 That 1 conceive 1 in ferny grove — 
 
 As arc not proper on the earth; 
 For envious sayings came and spread, 
 
 I ucreasing daily their intent. 
 An 1 on these lies my fellows fed, 
 
 And to them truth by winks they lent: 
 The i'alsity of them they knew: 
 
 They mangled truth till truth expired. 
 Ah! what can truth and justice do 
 
 When falsehood is bv envv hired? 
 
KORMEELYOK 
 
 And inexperience wrought me ill; 
 
 I had no tacl to so dec< ive 
 Thai men would deem me honest still: 
 
 Tims, social spiders fast did weave 
 Around my character and name 
 
 Such mazy web of filthy tales 
 1 ne'er could reach a stainless fame; 
 
 For in the world a pariah fails — 
 Society, the tyrant, rules, 
 
 Society with countless lies. 
 Society with many fools 
 
 Who laugh while genius starves and dies! 
 
 () when for man through life yon wort, 
 Foregoing love, foregoing Miss. 
 And dream ol Greece and Salamis, 
 Leonidas, Thermopylae, 
 And Marathon; and all the free 
 And glorious principles of right 
 Of that past age that is the light 
 
 For ours, — then feel a dirk 
 Thrust in your heart by those for whom 
 You planned and wrought and met your doom. 
 My God! ii is a fearful thing! 
 1. did not feel so much the sting 
 
 < M sudden failure, but to know- 
 That man in eveiy age has cursed 
 
 The purest, freest souls below, 
 Who by their works have sought to hurst 
 The manacles ol slavery — 
 Ah. that is what embittered me! 
 
 Attend! 1 had a dream like this: 
 
 1 did anticipate in youth 
 That man might know the perfect bliss 
 
 Thai dol Ii arise from perf< cl truth, 
 
NOKMEELYOX 
 
 And, following' this string of thought 
 
 From out the maze of doubt and fear, 
 I dreamed that, if for man 1 wrought, 
 
 To men of truth I might be dear: 
 So all my plans were formed in one — 
 
 The vain desire of many a seer — 
 To do what noblest men have done, 
 And be the highest good I sought. 
 Ah, silly youth! such dreams are trite, 
 And men love darkness, hate the light! 
 Ah, vile hypocrisy so reigns 
 That man to seem angelic deigns! 
 Society is born a prude, 
 And man in soul, indeed, is lewd! 
 
 So, much experience made me wise: 
 It taught me things that I despise: 
 It taught me that some laws are made 
 To serve I lie lawyers that they shade: 
 It taught me Talleyrand could feed 
 
 The subtilty of that lie spake: — 
 The tongue was made truth to conceal.— 
 
 Thus, from my dream I did awake 
 To vile reality — so vile 
 That life was irksome for awhile. 
 
 0! when the silence of the grave 
 Is mine, and I no more am here 
 
 Among mean men, as mean a slave, 
 To see them in their lewdness leer 
 
 ( hi beauty clothed in purity; 
 
 Or blacken worth with calumny, 
 
 God! how glorious will that sphere. 
 Where I may go, to me appear! 
 
 1 must confide in tilings unseen — 
 I must believe a world serene 
 
XORMKKI.VnX 
 
 ls in existence in vast space 
 Where injured beings go apace. 
 
 O! why does vice appear like bliss? 
 Voluptuous is its evil Kiss. 
 Forbidden is i ce, 
 
 It is dressed in costly lace, 
 Din; • <nowy white, 
 
 bs within . -ht, 
 
 ( 'oncealing charms — that-most allure — 
 
 Enough the passions rise, 
 
 And few who gaze can then endure 
 To think of hea> • ies. 
 
 ice is crafty, an : • 
 Thfi 
 And thus 
 
 rfume, 
 wafts il th urt, 
 
 sume 
 That may enlu 
 
 loth seek. 
 
 Anil thus the 01 
 
 I <>!' lii p o] 
 
 1 pm ity 
 en and never sec 
 
 — 
 
 The vicious plots of fi ml- who ! ale — 
 ontempt 
 ; ."l be exon 
 : filthy name, 
 I Fame. 
 
 '". — iml 11 ell, 
 
 111 but painful truth i t< 
 
NOKMEE] 
 
 I was my lath 
 
 rth his 1< •• e i v m — 
 It] 
 
 f his ire, 
 
 passions and 
 
 'in. 
 My father's v\ i 
 
 Bui "iily — Tii 
 
 lops what is in the blood: — 
 A. lui ! torn love of <■ 
 
 or in the I 
 Wil kiting 
 
 ' iting 
 >n, and ni; 
 Dep 
 
 ■ 
 
 My goodl] ; '' — 
 
 was two-and-1 cventj — died. 
 And then began ray br< 
 
 would be- 
 My own inheril il he 
 
 ! his wish: I tools 
 The humbler portion, and 
 
 e precious lands thi will 
 
 ;'.;md SO they should 1"' still; 
 But, hov tell 
 
 His wish to rule and rol 
 I failed. 
 
 h, then I loved and 
 And won a must celestial hand — 
 < ). such a lady! such a grand 
 
 cms soul had she! 
 

 And : ii" had 
 
 : thai lovi 
 
 ': y heart in bio 
 vcr kn< v. 
 
 W.'il Slice. 1,1 
 
 Was 
 
 lumny n ■-■ — 
 
 lly vvhon one is hated, 
 
 As I then i not why, 
 
 ed — 
 Firs . then To die. 
 
 My curse upon the babbling throng, 
 My curse up< n wight 
 
 burled on me such lasting wrong, 
 My narae with infamy to blight! 
 Forever may such si ethe and boil, 
 Around such may vile serpents coil, 
 
 e filthy lake 
 With slimy things their food partake; 
 And i y such hot horror feel 
 
 ■ hell is re 
 Ah, then for pity they will cry, 
 
 ill implore to die; 
 11 their agony shall be 
 Just punishment for villainy! 
 I know such imprecations seem 
 
 Ignoble to all people pure; 
 But him, who lies and thieves, 1 deem 
 
 A squalid fiend who should endure 
 The worst that man or hell can give; 
 
10 NORMEELYON 
 
 He has devised his punishment, 
 lie Is unworl hy here to liv( — 
 Then let him to his hell be sent! 
 
 Man drove mi he best to worst — 
 
 I was an angel once, ! wen — 
 But 1 bv man ha 1 I iccursed, 
 
 And I man's infa h 'n: 
 
 All! well it is I : ; 
 
 Has e of my might, 
 
 For I have had a chance to kill, 
 
 id i have I feai fnl plij tit; 
 
 I the fiend withii 
 
 And mi ' ; quel ted w i ; ■' 
 
 I did not wish til 
 
 ! did ■ une to fall. 
 
 All, Sir, the wo in youth 
 
 eet and grand, 
 Bui the 1 nth 
 
 When in i he h 
 And t'rion Is, w hn once lie and praise 
 
 And < Iroui and i ive, 
 
 Can sn I ids in evil days, 
 
 And even -i udas-like deceive. 
 
 ! 1 1 i of th ', I kn u\\ — 
 
 i loved them once — I lie ! ii h me — 
 
 My heart v\ as boundh ■ < ■ — 
 
 They played on me hypoei isy; 
 
 11 — i >nie ho e i • mine, 
 ', i i id o e: 
 
 I know i his life is more di> i 
 TIik i thai i led with men I Ion 
 
 HUM I ■• 
 
3T0RMKE-LT03 1 I 
 
 My enemies clunj 
 I like an oak was c >lled 
 
 : did what seemed the right. 
 Ah! envy can destroy the truth, 
 And 1; 
 
 the world — in awe can hold 
 Good men who should be w »old; 
 
 But are they bold men who would fear 
 i'llain or I 
 
 I do nor like to tell ray wees — 
 ECach one his own d w knows; 
 
 But some are crush i sir real worth, 
 
 rove insulted on the earth. 
 
 An inner whi me 
 
 tells me 1 shall be deplored 
 When men my lace n< 
 < )n this high mount, with b< od, 
 
 !. Si^-. live now n - ily; 
 
 when my fo< ' ; tread on the sod 
 at rest 
 ised. 
 
 know how friends will believe false tales. 
 And how 
 
 Bud one creeping low, 
 They witl g throng will go? 
 
 Well, thus it came about with im 
 And 1 such friends no longer 
 now, 
 
 ■ along; 
 r ,v — 
 In truth, It! I no wrm 
 
 . ill burst 
 This bleeding heart; tor mv sweet wife 
 
12 STORMEELYON 
 
 Was dearer to me than my life, 
 And, when she died, all men 1 cursed. 
 But hear, it came about this way: 
 It was a murky, stormy, day, 
 And 1 was cast without defense 
 In prison, Sir, on false pretense; 
 And she. at midnight through the rain, 
 
 With heart o'erilowing with such love 
 
 As may be scarce in realms above, 
 Sped like the reckless hurricane 
 To snap the power of the chain 
 Thai i a martyr's stake; 
 
 Butsthey, who kept me, ru lely. spake, 
 And i her pure life to take. 
 
 0! it was hell for mo to hear 
 
 The; • What could I do? 
 
 1 shed in anger many a tear, 
 
 And like a v.'yy madman flew 
 Against the g ell, 
 
 And in a swooi b it fell. 
 
 0! how i wept when I 
 I thought my very heart was broke: 
 The ; : :e a dream; 
 
 The present like a hell 
 The future — hell in its extreme! 
 
 A day or two or many sped, 
 
 And some one w e was dead. 
 
 T moved not. uttered not a wo ' !, 
 Soon loudly laughed at what 1 heard, 
 
 And then away my reason fled — 
 
 I had not 
 
 When I awoke > crawled around 
 
 Upon the cold and stony ground — 
 
 My cell beneath the earth was made, 
 hard marl had staid. 
 
JTOKMEELYON 13 
 
 i I! cruel and inhuman men 
 To hold a man in such a den. 
 And curse his wife to greater woo! 
 My God! instrucl me: shall they know, 
 i years on year.-, have fled along, 
 The hellish their dark wrong? 
 
 1 begged those nam to let me 
 
 ( h bring to me my little b< 
 They tossed their heads in mali high, 
 
 To sec ras weep it gave them joy. 
 I cursed them from the dungeon there; 
 To highes - >m deep despair 
 
 e at CMC great bound, 
 And in myself a man 1 found. 
 Yet how I grieved that gloomy day: 
 ed but !■ tj lvs ilf, 
 
 I did want my little elf 
 To look upon and kiss, caress, 
 
 • with me my wretchedness. 
 They laughed at me, and meaner grew; 
 Wi h sullen siler lied; 
 
 could not tell what 1 would do: 
 Still en no mortal 1 r< lie'!. 
 i v. not whi child could be, 
 
 His lovely face I could not see: 
 
 rain gi*ew hot, my thoughts were wild, 
 '(1 in an: my child. 
 
 0! n with men, you know, 
 
 them with most hellish woe. 
 Ah! thraldom, Sir, and tyranny 
 i.i\ e in a land that men call free; 
 
 Law, tha --.wli man protect, 
 
 mi now a - feet; 
 Bui docs the law of Him, who rules, 
 , . leminff Tools' 
 
14 ITORMEELYON 
 
 From i>rise 
 
 ies! 
 snoe then; 
 an imp; 
 They ma] i1 man basely limp; 
 
 face 
 On e\ 
 
 I I : Q8, 
 
 And black tm ■■■ 
 
 But G-od abov svell, 
 
 And each will in ' : 
 
 In my position I pe 
 
 Wl: ;ht. and ju it; 
 
 Aroftn 
 
 And 
 I did m\ 
 
 Each h pass, 
 
 ■■ 
 
 1 did nol 
 But tried each day 
 Aiv : h u 'h ■ 
 
 iurl 'I 
 From big ground, 
 
 And in il irever bou 
 
 I should 'tis done 
 
 I ha 3t, they h v in: 
 
 The i' may, 
 
 The veil shall day. 
 
 Ah, Sir, good 
 When evil souls have met their end! 
 
 Thus,*with my knowledge of my past, 
 And with a belief in ] rs there, 
 
XOUMEELYOX 15 
 
 My life may many years yel last, 
 
 I shall not yield to dark despair. 
 All! they, who once insulted me, 
 May meet themselves adversity. 
 I >! how I pity him who dies 
 
 With no dear friends abiding near 
 To ease his struggles, close his eyes. 
 
 And mourn his loss for many a year! 
 Ah! many. Sir, who perish so, 
 Bring on themselves such ruthless woe; 
 For, had they lived like noble men. 
 In death would they alone have been? 
 
 ( )! long was I immured! 
 I can not tell what I endured; 
 But after months of grief and pain, 
 When I no longer was deemed sane, 
 My keepers oped my dingy cell — 
 They had become so amiable. 
 My G-odl my little hoy was dead! 
 
 They never had revealed his fate. 
 I know not where my frenzy led; 
 
 I could not my despair abate; 
 I wandered wildly hither, thither; 
 I thoughl my very soul would wither! 
 
 I left my home, I fled the land 
 
 Where I was born, where I was bred; 
 
 My fate I did not understand: 
 
 I knew ihe world had something said, 
 
 I knew it had my good name blighted, 
 And all because my worth il knew 
 And feared the g6od that I might do. 
 I wept, but never for my woe, 
 I could not yield to sorrow so 
 
16 NORMEELYON 
 
 For mine own ills — that could not be — 
 
 I wept with untold agony 
 Because most: men are so benighted. 
 I left my home and then, ray Grod! 
 
 My tears came quick and hot! 
 
 My dog alone had not forgot; 
 
 My dog alone remembered me; 
 
 He came to share my misery. 
 Ah, then I fell upon the sod, 
 Ah, then my sobs were choked in grief, 
 
 Ah, then my heart was almost ^rushed; 
 My dog alone brought me relief, 
 
 His love alone my weeping hushed. 
 () Thou! who art omnipotent! 
 Is this the boon from heaven sent? 
 Is this the one most faithful friend, 
 ( >n whom one must for aye depend? 
 Has he alone a noble soul? 
 
 Will ho alone, deprived of home, 
 With joyousness partake of dole 
 
 With his forsaken master; roam 
 With him; and cling to him in death, 
 And guard his lifeless form when breath 
 Has ebbed away? — A vaunt, avaunt! 
 
 Ye faithless men of Selfish ease, 
 And never venture here to taunt 
 
 Me on my mountain, top, and feeze 
 My spirit! Grovel as ye will, 
 But come not here, for I may kill 
 Some ancient foe, or make him rue 
 The things he did or then may do. 
 
 1 wandered, — whither? — to the sea; 
 
 My dog alone accompanied me; 
 
 I stood upon a lofty hight; 
 
 The moon was up, and it was night — 
 
NORMEELYOK fi 
 
 ( >! such a lovely, glorious, eve! 
 The waves were playing on the strand, 
 Ami far away I saw some land — 
 
 Or cloud, so fashioned to deceive — 
 Enrobed in soft habilament, 
 And thither all my fervor went. 
 How real seemed that fantastic isle, 
 It made me happy for awhile; 
 
 I sat, and mused, and dreamed; 
 The moonbeams on the water gleamed; 
 
 The wavelets rippled far below, 
 And, even as 1 mused and thought, 
 
 I half forgot my woe! 
 So much I of that calmness caught 
 
 Pervading earth and sea and air, 
 So much I of that beauty won 
 
 That seemed to breathe and linger there. 
 It was more pleasant than the sun — 
 That calm pale moon above the ocean — 
 
 That dreamy night — that cloud afar — 
 
 The sky aglow with many a star; 
 I breathed to God my deep devotion! 
 To., goon my soul relapsed to sorrow; 
 
 Of her I loved, of her who gave 
 
 Me love, of her now in the grave, 
 
 i thought until I wept aloud; 
 
 Ah, then my head I lowly bowed! 
 Where should I go upon the morrow.' 
 My (Jod! it is a fearful feeling 
 To find a loathing inward stealing 
 For life and men and every thing, 
 When nothing can composure bring! 
 And so i felt from hour to hour 
 
 i pon that rock above the deep. 
 
 And only waited for some power 
 
 To rouse my soul and make me leap 
 
XORMEELYOX 
 
 Into the placid moon-lit sea, 
 Whose listlessness enchanted me. 
 But whither would my dog- depart? 
 
 I loved that noble fellow so 
 That I could circumscribe my woe; 
 
 His love alone controlled mv heart. 
 
 I now remember me a speech, 
 Unto myself addressed by me, 
 1 made above that gentle sea 
 Ere I descended to the beach — 
 Aye! on that clifted sea-mount dreaming, 
 With merry gulls around me screaming: 
 
 Arise from this degrading slumber, 
 
 < ), my soul! 
 Art thou among that wilful number 
 That succumb to idle dole? 
 
 What, though appreciation tarry 
 
 in this Land? 
 What, though thou never more shalt rnarry?- 
 Better for thy heart and hand! 
 
 Awake again, awake forever. 
 
 Conquer woe! 
 Leave now this slanderous (dime, or never 
 Vindicate thy name below! 
 
 By all my power and endurance 
 
 Now I swear! 
 I shall achieve my own assurance — 
 Best or worst 1 now shall dare! 
 
NOKMEELYON 10 
 
 1 left the land where I was bred — 
 
 l y some kind spirit led. — 
 My pnly plan was to depart 
 
 far clime and ease my heart. 
 Ah! well I km i ien as I 
 
 Can find some good for which to die, 
 Some glorious cause that must pervade — 
 Although its dazzling dawn may fad< — 
 world throughout, 
 rob men of their fear and doubt; 
 Ah! well I knew that martyrs must 
 Be heralds of some mighty good 
 That — when their forms are in the dust — 
 ►Shall bind in closer brotherhood 
 Bed or nation, and advance 
 The world, and timid truth enhance; 
 Ah! well 1 knew these things, and more; 
 So left at last my native shore. 
 And east ward o'er the sea departed, 
 Half hopeful, yet half broken-hearted. 
 
 vhile I mutely stood surveying 
 placid tide and cloudless sky, 
 i saw the merry dolphins playing, 
 
 And schools of bluefish gliding by, 
 And fearless sea-birds; while no land 
 Was visible on either hand. 
 So merrily we skimmed the wave. 
 
 Our goodly vessel was so strong, 
 My enemies I near forgave, 
 
 And deemed I had myself been wrong. 
 
 Two days and nights through fogs we crept; 
 At intervals the greal horn blew, 
 
NOUiTEELYON 
 
 And hither, thither ran the crew; 
 i -. iraen slept. 
 I c >uld not sleep, 
 So selfish did such action seem, 
 wrong did I such coolness deem; 
 Thus I al i- g with them did keep 
 
 i 
 We' saw be • 
 
 5lou may surmise the sud 
 
 en in her way 
 erg wo did spy, 
 •s sis ! \\ ... Losl h sky. 
 
 . ■ i ose a dolefu 
 . ■ 
 
 haste did g r. 
 i ronnd the brave sir;) veered, 
 And every seaman held his breath, 
 every man ex ath: 
 
 way the vessel steered! 
 Her iron si ; the ice, 
 
 ■ 
 luthward with >us speed, 
 
 Wii M he sh; ouds, 
 
 many a man our course to Ik 
 We sped, wrapt in. 1 dess clouds. 
 
 . dden ray; — 
 I <) how beautiful they seemed! — 
 athly haze, 
 And to the far horizon 
 
 a d iy, — 
 A mi • e — 
 
 muntain : . 
 
 •cc: 
 dong 
 
 We fi] 
 

 O, never in my lift \\ i 
 
 w lien i ma 
 
 Bui soon * ; oug'li w i 
 
 ■ 
 
 ip were kind, 
 
 be 
 
 ■ 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 For in 
 
 lile 
 
 my woe, forsooth. 
 
 . 
 
 . played 
 
 wry." 
 
 And !• a i liour. 
 
XORMEELTON 
 
 i fought with comrades, now no more, 
 
 I tought upon a grassy mead, 
 I fought enrobed in reeking gore, 
 
 And even death I did not heed. 
 I did not wish to leave that place; 
 
 It was so noble to defend 
 My dear companions in disgrace, 
 
 And hope to their misfortunes lend. 
 Along our ranks the bullets flew, 
 
 A tearful cloud of smoke was there; 
 Our very spirits dizzy grew; 
 
 We would not yield when every-where 
 Along- thai mead the dead 
 
 Were watching with imploring eyes. 
 0! many a generous hero Med 
 
 And fell and died; while in the skies 
 The awful thunder of the right 
 
 Reechoed through the vales afar, 
 And gave oar souls that fearless might 
 
 That raises men to gods in war. 
 Perchance you know the carnal hell 
 
 That curses battle-fields, when man, 
 Aroused to hate unconquerable, 
 
 To seething flames that spark doth fan 
 That sleeps within his sou] betime, 
 And is the advocate of crime? 
 My God! I fought until the ground 
 
 Was red "villi my companions's blood, 
 And then I heard a deafening sound, 
 
 A cannonade, a frightful thud. 
 And near my heart (here was a wound; 
 
 1. i'ell unconscious in the mud, 
 Ami gore, and mangled forms all mingled, 
 
 While in my ears some music tingled: 
 I knew no mi 
 
 We lost our cause; 
 
K"OEMEELTON 
 
 Bui gained an 
 
 n died upon the field,, 
 They asked n . ■ ! ; ield; 
 
 . none were taken; 
 ken. 
 wl d J pray 
 
 , as that day 
 Imposed on mine and me! 
 
 in the centra] sky 
 liot: when L a n 
 , L saw lid smoke; 
 was !a; p 
 I\|y woun , wa« I, and I was blessed 
 
 such devotion, ilu I 
 
 s luck, and drew 
 ^ered, bloody lace to mine, 
 And oked divine: 
 
 his affection i awoke; 
 
 smoke: 
 he moon, and, lingering by, 
 ick of woJ 
 
 uud ras red, 
 
 And b lay, 
 
 And ii.an.-_-' ieir gray, 
 
 . and sorre 
 3\Iix< ,: ir trappii . s, reins, 
 
 •' \\ ii li a m 
 Uf murdered men and yellow grass, 
 And 1 remarked the golden 
 Of one brave man 1 Loved so well, 
 
 fell 
 When we liful brunt 
 
■21 NOItME ELTON 
 
 Of our antagonists. Ah there, 
 In death so beautiful and fair, 
 Upon his horse with dignity 
 Jit 1 leaned, and looked at me. 
 1 saw a wolf in hunger hunt 
 Around him and his noble steed; 
 
 He whined and licked his frothy jaw, 
 .Vml looko i upon that form in awe, 
 Then lied across that bloody mead, 
 And joined his mates. / ol ;. r away 
 1 saw a horse, a lovely bin 7 , 
 Alive and beautiful that night, 
 Caparisoned with trimmings bright: 
 Beside a precious corse he stood, — 
 My God! i wept! as well I could; 
 1 knew that man, I knew his name, 
 The bravest fellow dead t.-> fame, 
 The noblest heart 1 ever met, 
 Whose worth 1 never shall for;/' . 
 Ah (here, bathed in his blood, he slept, 
 And there his horse its vigil kept; 
 My (rod! it was a touching scene; — 
 That noble steed, the moon serene, 
 The hero dead upon the ground, 
 The wolves in hunger prowling round! 
 
 Afar do you behold that peak, 
 That seems the very sky to seek. 
 
 That promontory by the sea? 
 Well, after 1 had fought and bled, 
 And Jell among the mighty dead, 
 Some months thereafter, one fine morn, 
 
 My dog and I went there to be 
 Warmed by the sun, and hear the ocean 
 
xo mi eelt ox 25 
 
 Reecho in its wild commotion, 
 
 And gather shell-fish, thai adorn 
 Tl c \ eliow beach, when Lo! on high, 
 A frightful distance in the sky, 
 A man 1 i»aw; iky God! so near 
 The precipice, I lell a tear 
 Steal down my cheek; ahliough my soul 
 "Was steeled and under my control. 
 llr was a fool to linger i here; 
 No native of this land would dare 
 To scale tlie rocks where lie did ••ling. 
 
 1 motioned, but he saw me not; 
 i iaii pell-mell, aa«l saw him spring, 
 
 And fall, and rise; and then 1 g 
 Upon a shaggy ledge or reef, 
 And crept along to his relief, 
 And a}) that mountain's side, 
 
 Al ove the lashing*, foaming tide. 
 So, upward by degrees 1 u eared 
 
 That foolish man high in (ho air, 
 
 Who by one band was clinging there, — 
 The other crushed and red appeared. 
 ! looked again, 1 to him cried, 
 For downward he did swiftly slide, 
 Then lodge upon a rock 
 
 Five hundred feet above the sea: 
 And 1 in fancy felt the shock. 
 
 And clutched myself in agony. 
 Upon his countenance 1 gazed, 
 
 My God! it was my brother's face: 
 My head in horror then 1 raised; 
 
 1 could nol stir a single pace, 
 1 could not call aloud to him; 
 
 1 saw him wave his hand, and glance; 
 My dizzy eyes with tears were dim, 
 
 My very body in a trance; 
 
3G N0R3IE ELTON 
 
 Klin; 
 ie'il in my h 
 
 >ane; 
 At my i lid start. 
 
 I ha , . new 
 
 That my traducers all bad Lied; 
 13 a t still ill ) v 
 
 And in tl : i. 
 
 Alas, in\ 
 
 Tue many rule; 1 was alone: 
 
 i [1 I, OOllld not sic:!!, — 
 
 What good w.i - it to in jroan? 
 
 They wil I I tie si rand to stay. 
 
 I risked my life, I saved my brother! 
 I know that be had been a knave, 
 
 1 T, 
 
 this, in part, I went to save, 
 And. saving him, 1 went my way. 
 If he knew me 1 can not say, 
 
 I was changed by ear 
 
 Of melancholy and despair. 
 And he was overc une I ■ — 
 
 His safety was his onl 
 I went my way, — my dog and I — 
 When in a hut, d near by, — 
 
 An humble home beside the sea — 
 I left the man that rained me. 
 
 Go to your world, and there repe 
 
 The hostile thoughts you hear from me, 
 
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 And toll that world, if I retreat 
 
 Before its vice and villain), 
 It is not fear that draws rne back, 
 
 ■ want of p< wer, for 1 lack 
 r\ot either; but the curse war brings 
 Upon good men and harmless things. 
 Down in tl.ai valley lives a class?, 
 
 '1 hat turns the glel e and works for br< ! d, 
 And never a man there sees me j ass, 
 
 ] ut in respect lie lows his h< ad. 
 Ye of the world have cursed them too! 
 Know ye what they sometime may do.' 
 Keiuember France, her liistory, 
 
 Her Revolution, and that god, 
 Who, through its chats and its sea 
 
 Oi blood, to fame and glory trod; 
 And pale at wl at again may be, 
 If, in their load abuse of might, 
 Men rouse such daiing nun to tight! 
 Now I, Normeelyon, tell you this: 
 
 Our lost Thermopylae may bring 
 As great and grand a SALAMIS ! 
 
 If I but speak, yon host will cling 
 To mine endeavor till the earth 
 Is red with blood and sick with dearth.- 
 
 Go to your world, leave me in peace: 
 Some day my misery will cease. 
 
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