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Soon we'll be through our journey ami in the house so good
Thai stands within a dozen rods o f where the log one .stood.

H ow slow— like old-time coaches— our youthful years went by—
The years when we were livin’ neath a bright Mew England .sky;
Swifter tlian palace cars now fly our later years have flown,
Till now wo journey hand in hand down to the grave alone.

I hear th e w histle b lo w in ’ on life’s fast fly-in1 train ;
Only a few more stations in the va’dey now remain.

Soon w e ll reach the home eternal, with its glories all untold,
A n d stop at the best station in the city built o f gold.
J oh n II. Y a t e s,

THU I3ATTLL; OF WATERLOO.

I T H A D rained ail night. W ater lay here and there in the hollows
of the plain, as in basins.
A t som e points the wheels Hank- to the
axles. The horses’ girths dripped with liquid mud. The affair
opened late, T h e plan o f the battle which had been conceived was
indeed acmirabte, N ey drew his sword, placed himself at the head,
and the immense squadrons began to move. Then was se^n a fearful
sight. Nothing like it had 1x e n seen since the taking of the grand
redoubt at L a M oseana by the heavy cavalry, M urat was not there ;
but N ey tvas there. It seemed as if this mass had become a monster,

and had but a single mind. E ach squadron undulated and swelled
like the ring of a polyp. T h e y eoukl be seen through tlie thick smoke
as it was broken here and there. It was one pell-mell o f casques,
cries, sabres ; a furious bounding o f horses am ong the canon ; a terri­
ble, d iseiplined tumult, Som ething like this vision appeared in the old
Orphic Epics which tell o f certain antique hipp;mthrnpes, those Titans
with human faces and chests like horses, whose gallop scaled Olympus,
horrible, invulnerable, sublime— at once gods and beasts.

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