THE GREEN

MOUNTAIN BOYS.

I.

HERE we halt our march, and pitch our tent,
On the rugged forest ground,

And light our fire with the branches rent,
By winds from the beeches round.
Wild storms have torn this ancient wood,
But a wilder is at hand,

With hail of iron and rain of blood,

To sweep and scath the land.

II.

How the dark waste rings with voices shrill,
That startle the sleeping bird,
To-morrow eve must the voice be still,

And the step must fall unheard.
The Briton lies by the blue Champlain,

In Ticonderoga's towers,

And ere the sun rise twice again,

The towers and the lake are ours.

III.

Fill up the bowl from the brook that glides,
Where the fireflies light the brake;

A ruddier juice the Briton hides,

In his fortress by the lake.

Build high the fire, till the panther leap

From his lofty perch in fright,

And we'll strengthen our weary arms with sleep, For the deeds of to-morrow night.

Edward Everett.

ALARIC

THE

VISIGOTH.

(ALARIC stormed and spoiled the city of Rome, and was afterward: buried in the channel of the river Busentius, the water of which had been diverted from its course that the body might be interred.l

HEN I am dead, no pageant train

WHEN

Shall waste their sorrows at my bier,

Nor worthless pomp of homage vain
Stain it with hypocritic tear;

For I will die as I did live,

Nor take the boon I cannot give.

Ye shall not raise a marble bust

Upon the

spot where I repose;
Ye shall not fawn before my dust,

In hollow circumstance of woes;
Nor sculptured clay, with lying breath,
Insult the clay that moulds beneath.

Ye shall not pile, with servile toil,
Your monuments upon my breast,
Nor yet within the common soil

Lay down the wreck of power to rest,
Where man can boast that he has trod

On him that was the Scourge of GOD!"

But

ye

the mountain-stream shall turn,
And lay its secret channel bare,
And hollow, for your sovereign's urn,
A resting-place forever there:

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Then bid its everlasting springs
Flow back upon the king of kings;
And never be the secret said,
Until the Deep give up his dead.

My gold and silver ye shall fling

Back to the clods that gave them birth: The captured crowns of many a king, The ransom of a conquered earth: For, e'en though dead, will I control The trophies of the Capitol.

But when, beneath the mountain-tide,
Ye've laid your monarch down to`rot,
Ye shall not rear upon its side

Pillar or mound to mark the spot;
For long enough the world has shook
Beneath the terrors of my look
And, now that I have run my race,
The astonished realms shall rest a space.

My course was like a river deep,

And from the Northern hills I burst, Across the world in wrath to sweep,

And where I went the spot was cursed; Nor blade of grass again was seen Where Alaric and his hosts had been.

See how their haughty barriers fail

Beneath the terror of the Goth!

Their iron-breasted legions quail
Before my ruthless sabaoth;
And low the queen of empires kneels,
And grovels at my chariot-wheels.

Not for myself did I ascend

In judgment my triumphal car; 'Twas God alone on high did send

The avenging Scythian to the war—
To shake abroad, with iron hand,
The appointed scourge of His command.

With iron hand that scourge I reared
O'er guilty king and guilty realm;
Destruction was the ship I steered,

And Vengeance sat upon the helm,
When, launched in fury on the flood,
I ploughed my way through seas of blood,
And, in the stream their hearts had spilt,
Washed out the long arrears of guilt.

Across the everlasting Alp

I poured the torrent of my powers,
And feeble Cæsars shrieked for help,
In vain, within their seven-hilled towers;
I quenched in blood the brightest gem
That glittered in their diadem,
And struck a darker, deeper die
In the purple of their majesty,-
And bade my Northern banners shine
Upon the conquered Palatine!

My course is run, my errand done,
I go to Him from whom I came;

But never yet shall set the sun

Of glory that adorns my name;

And Roman hearts shall long be sick,
When men shall think of Alaric.

My course is run, my errand done;
But darker ministers of Fate,
Impatient, round the Eternal Throne,
And in the caves of Vengeance, wait;
And soon mankind shall blenah away
Before the name of Attila !

THE

ON

Frances H. Green.

CHICKADEE'S SONG.

N its downy wing, the snow,
Hovering, fieth to and fro-
And the merry schoolboy's shout,
Rich with joy, is ringing out;
So we gather, in our glee,
To the snow-drifts-Chickadee !

Poets sing in measures bold
Of the glorious gods of old,
And the nectar that they quaffed,
When their jewelled goblets laughed;
But the snow-cups best love we,
Gemmed with sunbeams-Chickadee

They who choose, abroad may go,
Where the Southern waters flow,
And the flowers are never sere
In the garland of the year;

But we love the breezes free
Of our North-land--Chickadee !