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Tears, tears ? .Hut what care T for tears ?
Fears, fears ? T laugh and mock at fears ■
The tears T freeze,
No fears appease ;
I skin the browj I pale the cheek,
I still the laughter, hush the shriek.

Since time be^an I’ve crushed and killed—
More, more! My nmw is never filled;
T take the worst,
The sin-iKCiirsed,
I take the best, give all blank rest,
I grin a:id swallow them with zest,

1-Jack, back ! Thir.k'st thou to play the cheat?
Can I Dl bo Light? Can 1 be beat?
'They near my cry—
They faint, they die!
O Godlike man, 0 chain-bound slave,
Conic here ! Thy master is the grave!
H r'NRY D a v e xro r t .

A HATTERV IN MOT ACTION.

f'.Lhiii t h r i l l it] ft d e s c r i p t i o n s 'u o u k l bi: “ Cyd w i t h g r e a t an in tA l.ion atir? wll.li r a l h e i
rapi<J cn un ciiili 0 n. ]
D TD you ever see a bnttery take position ?
It hasn't the thrill of a cavalry chaise, nor the primness of a
line of bayonet.; moving slowly and determinedly on, but there is
a peculiar excitement about it that makes old veterans rise in their
saddles and cheer.
We have been at the edge of Lhc woods. Every cartridge-
box lias been emptied once or mure, and one-fourth of the brigade
h;js melted 5 way in dead and wounded and missing. Not a ebeer is