FALL OF TECUMSEH. Above, near the path of the pilgrim, he sleeps, With a rudely-built tumulous o'er him; HAT heavy-hoofed coursers the wilderness And the bright-blossomed Thames, in its maesty. roam, To the war-blast indignantly tramping? Their mouths are all white, as if frosted with foam, The steel-bit impatiently champing. Tis the hand of the mighty that grasps the rein, A! see them rush forward, with wild disdain, From the mountains had echoed the charge of death, The savage was heard, with untrembling breath, One moment, and nought but the bugle was heard, The next, and the sky seemed convulsively stirred, The din of the steed, and the sabred stroke, In the mist that hung over the field of blood, That steed reeled, and fell, in the van of the fight, Till met by a savage, whose rank and might The moment was fearful; a mightier foe Had ne'er swung a battle-axe o'er him; O ne'er may the nations again be cursed He fought, in defence of his kindred and king, The lightning of intellect flashed from his eye, sweeps By the mound where his followers bore him, THE ENGINEER'S STORY. O, children, my trips are over, A tugging pain i' my breast; We were lumbering along in the twilight, Till we reached the upland's cress, I held my watch to the lamplight— Of the up-grade's heavy climb; Over the rails a-gleaming, The engine leaped like a demon, But to me-ahold of the lever- My lightest touch to obey. I was proud, you know, of my engine, Where a child of three or four, My hand was firm on the throttle As we swept around the curve, I sounded the brakes, and crashing One instant-one, awful and only, While the cries of the dying, the night wind Then I stood on the front of the engine- Where the cow-catcher slopes to the rail, And one held out in the night, While my eve gauged the distance, and measured My mind, thank the Lord! it was steady; And the face that, turning in wonder, I know little more-but I heard it The groan of the anguished wheels, And remember thinking—the engine In agony trembles and reels. One rod! To the day of my dying I shall think the old engine reared back, And as it recoiled, with a shudder I swept my hand over the track; They found us, they said, on the gravel, We men that run on the road But that night, they said, there were faces, For years in the eve and the morning My hand on the lever pressed downward 66 When little Hal, the captain's son, A lad both brave and good, A shudder shot through every vein- No hold had he above, below; To that far height none dared to go- We gazed, but not a man could speak, In groups, with pallid brow and cheek, As riveted unto the spot, Stood officers and crew. The father came on deck :-he gasped, "Oh, God; thy will be done!" Then suddenly a rifle grasped, And aimed it at his son. That only chance your life can save; He sunk-he rose-he lived-he moved On board we hailed the lad belo... Those wet arms round his neck, "Claimed as a slave, a free-born maid is dragged here from her home. On fair Virginia, Claudius has cast his eye of blight; The tyrant's creature, Marcus, asserts an owner's right, Oh, shame on Roman manhood! Was ever plot more clear? But look! the maiden's father comes! Behold Vir ginius here!" THE MAIN TRUCK, OR A LEAP FOR LIFE. Straightway Virginius led the maid a little space aside, D Ironsides at anchor lay, In the harbor of Mahon; A dead calm rested on the bay-The waves to sleep had gone; To where the reeking shambles stood, piled up with horn and hide. Hard by, a butcher on a block had laid his whittle down Virginius caught the whittle up, and hid it in his gown. And then his eyes grew very dim, and his throat began | Then up sprang Appius Claudius: "Stop him, aliveɔr to swell, dead! And in a hoarse, changed voice he spake, "Farewell, Ten thousand pounds of copper to the man who brings sweet child, farewell! his head!" The house that was the happiest within the Roman He looked upon his clients-but none would work his wallswill; The house that envied not the wealth of Capua's mar- He looked upon his lictors-but they trembled and ble halls, stood still. Now, for the brightness of thy smile, must have eternal And as Virginius through the press his way in silence gloom, cleft, Ever the mighty multitude fell back to right and left; GOFFE, THE REGICIDE. N the course of Philip's war, which involved almost all the Indian tribes in New England, and among others those in the neighborhood of Hadley, the inhabitants thought it proper to observe the ist of September, 1675, as a day of fasting and prayer. While they were in the church, and employed in their worship, they were surprised by a band of savages. The people instantly betook them selves to their arms,-which, according to the custom of the times, they had carried with them to the church, -and, rushing out of the house, attacked their invaders. The panic under which they began the conflict was, however, so great, and their number was so disproportioned to that of their enemies, that they fought doubtfully at first, and in a short time began evidently to give way. At this moment an ancient man, with hoary locks, of a most venerable and dignified aspect, and in a dress widely differing from that of the inhabitants, appeared suddenly at their head, and with a firm voice and an example of undaunted resolution, reanimated their spirits, led them again to the conflict, and totally routed the savages. And stood before the judgment seat, and held the knife When the battle was ended, the stranger disappeared; on high: "O dwellers in the nether gloom, avengers of the slain, By this dear blood I cry to you, do right between us twain; and no person knew whence he had come, or whither he had gone. The relief was so timely, so sudden, so unexpected, and so providential; the appearance and the retreat of him who furnished it were so unac And e'en as Appius Claudius hath dealt by me and countable; his person was so dignified and commine, manding, his resolution so superior, and his interDeal you by Appius Claudius and all the Claudian ferance so decisive, that the inhabitants, without any line!" uncommon exercise of credulity, readily believed him So spake the slayer of his child, and turned, and went to be an angel sent by Heaven for their preservation his way; Nor was this opinion seriously controverted until it But first he cast one haggard glance to where the body was discovered, several years afterward, that Goffe lay, and Whalley had been lodged in the house of Mr. And writhed, and groaned a fearful groan, and then, Russell. Then it was known that their deliverer was with steadfast feet, Goffe, Whalley having become superannuated some Strode right across the market-place unto the Sacred time before the event took place. street. TIMOTHY DWIGHT. But of him who performed such a notable deed And was driven by Johnny Bartholomew. As he came to a spot where a curve to the right Brought the black, yawning mouth of a tunnel in sight, And peering ahead with a far-seeing ken, Felt a quick sense of danger come over him then. But daunted not Johnny Bartholomew. And his lips-not with fear-took the color of ashes. This man they call Johnny Bartholomew. Through the eddying smoke and the serpents of fire That writhed and that hissed in their anguish and ire, With a rush and a roar like a wild tempest's blast, Told the joy at escape from that underground hell Did the passengers get up a service of plate? Stot men in their rapture his brown fingers squeeze? Is he young? Is he old? Is he tall? Is he short? THE FRENCH ARMY RETREATING FROM AGNIFICENCE of ruin! what has time Of the wild rage of storm, or deadly clime. pare? How glorious shone the invader's pomp afar! Like pampered lions from the spoil they came; The land before them silence and despair, The land behind them massacre and flame; Blood will have tenfold blood. What are they now? A name. Homeward by hundred thousands, column-deep, Broad square, loose squadron, rolling like the flood, When mighty torrents from their channels leap, Rushed through the land the haughty multitude, Billow on endless billow; on through wood, O'er rugged hill, down sunless, marshy vale, The death-devoted moved, to clangor rude Of drum and horn, and dissonant clash of mail, Glancing disastrous light before that sunbeam palɩ Again they reached thee, Borodino ! still Upon the loaded soil the carnage lay, The human harvest, now stark, stiff, and chill, Friend, foe, stretched thick together, clay to clay; In vain the startled legions burst away; The land was all one naked sepulchre; The shrinking eye still glanced on grim decay, Still did the hoof and wheel their passage tear, Through cloven helms and arms, and corpses mould ering drear. GEORGE CROLY. As the weaker gasped and fell "To the man who sets them free," Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine. "There has one already gone, whoe'er he be!" Then they held their breath with awe, Pulling on the rope, and saw |