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O God, that w ail! That prayer, that fall 1
Ruirt, wreck and desolation,
Ravage, waste and devastation,
Spread Death's sad pall dark over all.

That lurid glare ! That ghastly stare 7
Bruised, maimed, and gashed,
Soiled, stained, and broken,
O f former looks scare left a token
Could those lips speak, how they could teh
Of direful woe and fortune fell J
For mother's grief those eyes have shed ;
For brother’s pain that still heart bled,

What now is light, or gloom, or earth, or air.
To that wild stare?
Or friend or foe, or jo y or woe,
Or frown or smile, or trust or guile,
T o that dead glare ?
Truth rest? but in the tomb.
H ugh F. M cD ermott.

HEROES OF THE LAND OF PENN.

[A good com relation o f ’vivid word-painting und dramatic passages.]
"T“) F A U T T F U L in her solitary grandeur— fair as .a green island in a
desert waste, proud as a lonely column, reared in the wilder-
ness-— ri^es the land of Penn, in the histoiy of America,
Here beneath the Eitn of Shackomaxon, was first reared the holy
altar of Toleration, Here, from the halls of the old St at" House,
was first proclaimed the Bible of the rights of man— the Declaration
of Independence.
Here, WiiJiatn I'enn asserted the mild teachings of the (jospt!,
ivhose every word was Love. Here Franklin drew down lightnings
from the sky, and bent the science of ages to the good of toiling man.
Here Jefferson stood forth, the consecrated Prophet of Freedom,