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24 a : . ee UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY. fo _” VOL. AX.
~ PROPOSALS. . ,
the Ser-
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the
OF THE
se Soe eS : his’
MONARCH’S DEATH-BED.
Tho Emperor Albert of Hapsburgh, who
d by his nephew, afterwards called John
eleft to die by the way-side, and was supported in his
rmononts bya female poasant who happengd to bo passing...
"A monarch ‘on his Goath-bed lay—
Did censers waft porfu:
~ And soft lamps pour thelr itveey Tay
‘Through his proud chan’, 18, ‘gloom
ky
A long tree waving o’er his hedd, °
A swift sttonm rolling b; y=
-Had ho then fallen, as warriors fall,,
". Where spear strikes fire from spear? —
Was there a banner for his pall,
, A buckler for his bie: :
* No t so—nor clovon. mi nor helms,
Had strown the bloody s , ‘ | Om
Whore he the helpless lord ‘of realms Baltimore.
Yielded his soul to God.
-Were there not fai with words of cheer,
And princely vassals n
*. And priests the orci s Tear.
Before the fading eye?
A peasant girl, that rr head
Upon her bosom lai fo
And shrinking not for woman’s. dread
_ The face of death survey'd,
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TERMS.
Alone ‘she sat—from hill and woad
. Rod sunk the mournful sun;
~ Fast gush’d-the fount of noble blood,
Treason its worst had done!
With her long hair sho vainly préss‘d
The wounds to staunch their tide—
«Unknown, on that meck humble breast,
Imperial Albert died!
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in the explosion
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SEVENTE EN LETT ERS
‘ ' . . .
“ IN REPLY TO FIVE ESSAYS,
APPEARED IN THE GOSPEL MESSENGER
‘SOUTHERN EPISCOPAL REGISTER :
CONTROVERTING several STATEMENTS MADE
Yet beautiful arid bright he ostood,
Asborn to Tale the sto 8 ‘orm
A creatu hi :
‘A proud though, child. ike ‘form. °
The flames roll’d on—ho would not go,
‘Without his father’s word;
hat father faint in death below,
is voice no longer
B. “c.
IN HIS THIRTEEN LETTERS, | :
“RI IGHT REV. “BISHOP BOWEN.
CORRECTED AND REVISED FROMTHE UNITED STATES.
CATHOLIC. MISCELLA
Co. Peter
i ‘He call’d aloud—* Say, fathers say,”
If yet my task is done? .
e knew aot that the eliotn lay, ‘
Uneonseious of his son :
Ryan,
RX
Charles
<o Speak, ‘father ¢ once again he cried,
“If Tmay yet be gone!”
And but the booming shots replied,
And fast the flames roll’d o
oe
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whole armies prest,
‘But chiefly ‘ofthe fair and best.”
Corton.
PREFACE TO; THE READER. .
Upon his t brow. ho felt their breath,
And in his waving hair;
And look’d from that lono post of death,
. Tn still yet brave despair,
‘And shouted but once more aloud, i
« My father! must I stay,”
White o’er him fast, through sail and shroui
The wreathing fires, made ew: ay.
=
They wrapt the ship i in splendor wild |
They epught the flag on high
And stream‘d above the gallant child * Detroit
Like banners i in the sky. . it jetroit,
There came a burst of thunder sound—
‘The ‘boy oh! where was he or ornament.
and he hopes
contain no
Wits fragments strew’d the sea,
With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, .
That well had borne the’ .
Bat tine uublest thing that eiahd there
JEREMIAH DENNEHY, AT THE PRINTING-OFFICE OF THE’
Was that’ young faithful heart,
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