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A simultaneous shout, which came from every voice.
And seemed to make the very heavens rejoice.

Sweet music's power! one chord doth make us wild,
Cut change the strain, v.c weep as little child;
Touch yet another, men charge the battery gun,
And bv those martial strains— a victory's won ;
It matters not from whence, how far you roam,
No heart so cold that does not love “ Sweet Home."
ChARU-S H, TiFFAXY,

LAST CHARGE OP MARSHAL NEY.

/T A H E whole continental struggle exhibited 110 sublimer Hpectacle
1 than this last effort of Napoleon to save hi?; sinking empire,
K 11 rope had been put upon the plains of Waterloo to be battled
for. The 'jreatest military enercv and skill the world possessed had
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been tasked to the utmost during the dav. Thrones Avert'tottering on
the ensanguined field, and the shadows of fugitive kinas ililied through
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the smoke of battle, liouapa lie’s .star trembled in ' he ncnitii-— :ioiv
blaming oi.it in its ancient splendor, now suddenly paling before Ills
anxious eye, At length, when the Prussians appeared on the Held, he
resolved to slake Europe on one bold throw. He committed himsell
and France to Key, and saw hi* Empire rest on a single chance.
Key felt the pressure of the immense responsibility on his brave
heart, and resolved not to prove unworthy of the great trust com­
mitted to his care. Nothing could be more imposing than the move­
ment of that great column to the assault. That gu:ird had never yet
recoiled before a human foe, and the allied forces beheld with awe it:?
firm and terrible advance to the final charge. For a moment the bat­
teries stopped playing, and the firing ceased along the British lines, as
without the beating of a drum, or the blast of a bugle, to cheer their
steady courage, thcv moved in dead silence over llv- nkmi. Th:: n^-xt
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moment the artillery opened, and the head of that g.diant cohmm