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Prepare the catafalque in St. Martin's church, and place it before the altar! Put candles around it, as many as can be found! It is still early! Lieutenant! I am glad you are there! Rouse the cathedral priests and go to the bishop. I command a solemn requiem for my mother! Everything is to be arranged precisely as it was at the funeral of the Duchess of Aerschot!
'Let me sleep, he may say, 'with my father and my mother, with my wife and my children; lay me not here, in this distant land, where my dust cannot mingle with its kindred. I would he chimed to my grave by my own village bell, and have my requiem sung where I was baptized into Christ. Marvel ye at such last words?
This enabled the cochero to understand the expression on the saint's face, but whether the sight of the guards troubled him or he had no great respect for a saint who would travel in such company, he did not recite a single requiem. Behind St.
Ready assistance was given by M. Daguerry, the curate of the Madeleine, where the funeral service was to be held; and thanks to him permission was received for the introduction of female singers into the church, without whom the performance of Mozart's Requiem would have been an impossibility. As if there were still grands seigneurs!
"The grave, sonorous words of the martial request were hardly uttered, ere through the darkness of the night the great cannon boomed, a soldier's welcome and a brave man's requiem, which caused women's hearts to throb and men's to beat exultingly."
His 'ghaist' looked bonnie and rosy and confident, yet all the time the band was playing the requiem for his lost cause and buried hopes."
One night the storm was blowing a north-east gale outside, and the wind howled and moaned in such weird and doleful tones around the cottage, that it seemed as though some troubled spirit had been let loose to wail out a solemn requiem over a departing soul.
We're right, Julian. We must be right!" "It's a ghastly responsibility. I wonder what history will have to say." "That's the worst of it," Furley groaned. "They'll have a bird's-eye view of the whole affair, those people who write our requiem or our eulogy. You noticed the Press this morning? They're all hinting at some great move in the West. It's about in the clubs.
A lover's lay No dirge no doleful requiem song Is what I owe him; for I loved him long; As dearly as a younger brother may. Proud is the happy grief with which I sing; For, O my Country! in the paths of men There never walked a grander man than he! He was a peer of princes yea, a king! Crowned in the shambles and the prison-pen! The noblest Slave that ever God set free!" Bibliography
The soldier's faithful poodle licks his wounds upon the stormy battle-field; and Landseer's colley-dog tears up the turf, and howls the shepherd's requiem.
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