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At the age of fifteen he was brought to the Court of Francis I. He served in the campaigns against Charles V., was present at the siege of Metz, and afterwards fought with great bravery in Flanders and in Italy. He was one of the tenants in the tournament in which Henry II. lost his life.
See you, beneath you cloud so dark, Fast gliding along, a gloomy bark? Her sails are full, though the wind is still, And there blows not a breath her sails to fill! Oh! what doth that vessel of darkness bear? The silent calm of the grave is there, Save now and again a death-knell rung, And the flap of the sails with night-fog hung?
In an article which appeared in "Les Annales," July 6, 1913, Charles Le Goffic tells of a visit to the house in Tarascon known as la maison de Tartarin, and reports a conversation he had with Mistral, the great Provençal poet, an intimate friend of Daudet.
The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust .
It was the war that killed the old Daudet and brought into existence the new. Before the war, Daudet himself confesses it, he had lived free from care, singing and trifling, heedless of the vexing problems of society and the world, his heart aglow with the fire of the sun of his native Provence.
No more the flo'wry scenes of pleasure rise, Nor charming prospects greet the mental eyes, No more with joy we view that lovely face Smiling, disportive, flush'd with ev'ry grace. The tear of forrow flows from ev'ry eye, Groans answer groans, and sighs to sighs reply; What sudden pangs shot thro' each aching heart, When, Death, thy messenger dispatch'd his dart?
The Works of Robert Burns, with a complete Life of the Poet and an Essay on his Genius and Character, by Professor WILSON, 2 vols. Blackie and Son, 1853.
A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs, by W. H. LOGAN. Edinburgh, William Paterson, 1869. Two Hundred and Twenty Two Popular Scottish Songs, with music. Glasgow, John S. Marr and Sons, n. d. Miller's New British Song. Edinburgh, J. M. Miller, 1858. Whistle-Binkie, a Collection of Songs for the Social Circle, 4 vols. Glasgow, David Robertson, 1853.
I mention these things because it is right you know them; they are an additional proof that, even in this world, the Providence has decreed that injustice and violence shall meet with their appropriate punishment, and that justice and mercy shall also have their reward, etc. etc. Lettre de lord Palmerston
Eight of the transports of Sir Hovenden Walker's fleet with eight hundred officers and soldiers were cast away in the river Canada, where upon the rest of the fleet returned to New-England. 9 October 1711.
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