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THE WAYFARER. "On, on! through the wind and rain, With the blinding tears and burning vein! When the toil is o'er and the pain is past, What recks it all if we sleep at last." …
THE VAULT OF KILHENZIE. "Through gloomy paths unknown, Paths which untrodden be, From rock to rock I go Along the dashing sea. And seek from busy woe, With hurrying steps to flee; B…
THE QUEEN ANNE'S HEAD. "Well, suppose life be a desert? There are halting-places and shades, and refreshing waters; let us profit by them for to-day. We know that we must march on when to-…
NEW FRIENDS. "Why unite to banish care? Let him come our joys to share; Doubly blest our cup shall flow When it soothes a brother's woe; 'Twas for this the powers divine Crowned our b…
THE YOUNG VOLUNTEER. "When I was an infant, gossips would say I'd when older be a soldier; Rattles and toys I'd throw them away, Unless a gun or sabre. When a younker up I gre…
THE PRUSSIAN GRENADIER. "There was a criminal in a cart A-going to be hanged; Respite to him was granted, And cart and crowd did stand, To know if he would marry a wife Or rather ch…
COLCHESTER BARRACKS. "Hail, sweet recruiting service, pleasing toil, Ball-room campaigns, tea-parties, dice and Hoyle! Ye days when dangling was my only duty, Envied by cits, caressed by every …
THE LOST LETTER. "And when they talk of him, they shake their heads, And whisper one another in the ear: And he that speaks doth grip the hearer's wrist, Whilst he that hears makes fearful…
