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LOVE AND FAME.

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Give me the boon of Love!

The lamp of Fame shines far,

But Love's soft light glows near and warm

A pure and household star.

One tender glance can fill the soul

With a perennial fire;

But Glory's flame burns fitfully

A lone, funereal pyre.

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NAPOLEON AT REST.

BY J. PIER PONT.

His falchion flashed along the Nile,
His host he led through Alpine snows,
O'er Moscow's towers, that blazed the while,
His eagle-flag unrolled-and froze!

Here sleeps he now, alone!-not one,

Of all the kings whose crowns he gave, Bends o'er his dust; nor wife nor son

Has ever seen or sought his grave.

Behind the sea-girt rock, the star

That led him on from crown to crown

Has sunk, and nations from afar

Gazed as it faded and went down.

High is his tomb: the ocean flood,

Far, far below, by storms is curledAs round him heaved, while high he stood, A stormy and unstable world.

NAPOLEON AT REST.

Alone he sleeps: the mountain cloud,

That night hangs round him, and the breath Of morning scatters, is the shroud

That wraps the conqueror's clay in death.

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SHAKSPEARE ODE.

BY CHARLES SPRAGUE.

GOD of the glorious Lyre!
Whose notes of old on lofty Pindus rang,
While Jove's exulting choir.

Caught the glad echoes and responsive sang-
Come! bless the service and the shrine,

We consecrate to thee and thine.

Fierce from the frozen north,

When havoc led his legions forth,

O'er Learning's sunny groves the dark destroyer spread : In dust the sacred statue slept,

Fair Science round her altars wept,

And Wisdom cowled his head.

At length, Olympian Lord of morn,

The raven veil of night was torn,

When, through golden clouds descending,

Thou didst hold thy radiant flight,

O'er nature's lovely pageant bending,

Till Avon rolled, all-sparkling, to thy sight!

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