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“ Your name, your name:?" the Austrian^ ciy.
"T.a Tour d'Auvergne/' comes in reply.
'f t;i Jour, I.a Tour." with three times dlrce.
Cheer on rliecr
Burnt from every A uMr:tin heart;
And again,
Down the51 glen.
The ringing echoes sSrii‘1.
While the.1 Colonel, howing low,
Said in accents grave:
“ I <-alulelmv trail a nt foc„
T- I. J
Tiic bravest of the brave !71
AI a i d a I.Su o n .
TH E PRAIRIE MIRAGE.
haze at the far horizon. The sky seemed of copper and the
brow n.
Jiut one abject broke Ihe monotonous sameness of the scene,—
a white e o veret; wag o n, j U JI appi L; g ca n v a s to p givii i g s c an L s h eJ ter J o
the emigrant and his wife crouched within. Their journey lia.:: been
long, fever ■ limbs in die woman's veins.
Sudeienly the man looks rjp, Martlet, Their .search for a home
is over.
See ! 11 he cries in joy.
They have; come out on the edge of a wide reaching valley, 1 diais
of densedeaved, billowy forest, bend and sway in a gende Ijieoze.
A lake with here and there a touch of fo;nn to relieve die si.iddduvj,
bine of die waves restlessly tosses and wrinkles its wiik^s. Broad
meadow-s suggesting clover and goklen-rod a:_e near by, and the
i! 11J id aliens of the ^ra-s are 'ike 1 hose of the Jake. YTwrlci'. alon:: the