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And trampled in the dust. For so of old

The thronging Goth and Vandal trampled Rome,
And where the temples of the Cæsars stood
The lean wolf unmolested made her lair.

PALABRAS CARIÑOSAS

GOOD night! I have to say good night
To such a host of peerless things!
Good night unto the slender hand
All queenly with its weight of rings;
Good night to fond, uplifted eyes,
Good night to chestnut braids of hair,
Good night unto the perfect mouth,
And all the sweetness nestled there—
The snowy hand detains me, then
I'll have to say good night again!

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But there will come a time, my love,
When, if I read our stars aright,

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I shall not linger by this porch

With my farewells. Till then, good night!
You wish the time were now ? And I.
You do not blush to wish it so?

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You would have blushed yourself to death
To own so much a year ago—

What, both these snowy hands! ah, then
I'll have to say good night again!

BATUSCHKA

FROM yonder gilded minaret
Beside the steel-blue Neva set,

I faintly catch, from time to time,
The sweet, aerial midnight chime-
"God save the Tsar!"

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Above the ravelins and the moats

Of the white citadel it floats;

And men in dungeons far beneath

Listen, and pray, and gnash their teeth-
"God save the Tsar!"

The soft reiterations sweep
Across the horror of their sleep,

As if some demon in his glee
Were mocking at their misery-
"God save the Tsar!"

In his Red Palace over there,

Wakeful, he needs must hear the prayer.
How can it drown the broken cries

Wrung from his children's agonies?
"God save the Tsar!"

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Father they called him from of old-
Batuschka! . . . How his heart is cold!
Wait till a million scourged men

Rise in their awful might, and then
"God save the Tsar ! "

JOHN HAY

1838-1905

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JOHN HAY, versatile man of letters and brilliant statesman, was born at Salem, Indiana, was graduated from Brown University, and later admitted to the bar. He was one of President Lincoln's private secretaries during the war, and also saw active service, with the rank of colonel. After the war he held minor diplomatic posts at Paris, Vienna, and Madrid. In 1897 President McKinley appointed him' ambassador to Great Britain, where he served with great distinction, both to himself and to his country. During the Spanish-American

War he was recalled and appointed Secretary of State. He was retained in this position when Mr. Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency, and he held it until his death. He wrote a volume of Spanish sketches. two volumes of poems, and, with J. G. Nicolay, the voluminous and authoritative life of Abraham Lincoln. His sudden death was re

garded as a national calamity.

JIM BLUDSO OF THE PRAIRIE BELLE

WALL, no! I can't tell whar he lives,
Becase he don't live, you see;
Leastways, he's got out of the habit
Of livin' like you and me.

Whar have you been for the last three year
That you haven't heard folks tell
How Jimmy Bludso passed in his checks
The night of the Prairie Belle?

He weren't no saint, them engineers
Is all pretty much alike,
One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill
And another one here, in Pike;
A keerless man in his talk was Jim,
And an awkward hand in a row,
But he never flunked, and he never lied,
I reckon he never knowed how.

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All boats has their day on the Mississip,
And her day come at last,

The Movastar was a better boat,

But the Belle she wouldn't be passed.

And so she come tearin' along that night-
The oldest craft on the line

With a nigger squat on her safety valve,

And her furnace crammed, rosin and pine.

The fire bust out as she clared the bar,

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And burnt a hole in the night,

And quick as a flash she turned, and made

For that willer bank on the right.

There was runnin' and cursin', but Jim yelled out,

Over all the infernal roar,

"I'll hold her nozzle agin the bank

Till the last galoot's ashore."

Through the hot, black breath of the burnin' boat
Jim Bludso's voice was heard,

And they all had trust in his cussedness,
And knowed he would keep his word.
And, sure's you're born, they all got off
Afore the smokestacks fell, -

And Bludso's ghost went up alone
In the smoke of the Prairie Belle.

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He weren't no saint, but at jedgment
I'd run my chance with Jim,
'Longside of some pious gentlemen

That wouldn't shook hands with him.

He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing, -
And went for it thar and then ;
And Christ ain't agoing to be too hard
On a man that died for men.

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JAMES RYDER RANDALL

1839

MR. RANDALL has been a lifelong journalist. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and studied at Georgetown College, D.C. His journalistic work has been done at New Orleans, Augusta, Baltimore, and Washington.

MY MARYLAND

THE despot's heel is on thy shore,
Maryland!

His torch is at thy temple door,

Maryland!

Avenge the patriotic gore

That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle queen of yore,

Maryland, my Maryland!

Hark to an exiled son's appeal,

Maryland!

My Mother State, to thee I kneel,

Maryland!

For life and death, for woe and weal,

Thy peerless chivalry reveal,

And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel,

Maryland, my Maryland!

Thou wilt not cower in the dust,

Maryland!

Thy beaming sword shall never rust,

Maryland!

Remember Carroll's sacred trust,
Remember Howard's warlike thrust,
And all thy slumberers with the just,
Maryland, my Maryland!

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