FROM THE FRENCH. ["MUST THOU GO, MY GLORIOUS CHIEF?"](') I. MUST thou go, my glorious Chief, Dear as both have been to me With a soldier's faith for thee? - 11. Idol of the soldier's soul! First in fight, but mightiest now: Many could a world control; Thee alone no doom can bow. Death; and envied those who fell, (1)" All wept, but particularly Savary, and a Polish officer who had been exalted from the ranks by Buonaparte. He clung to his master's knees; wrote a letter to Lord Keith, entreating permission to accompany him, even in the most menial capacity, which could not be admitted." (2) "At Waterloo, one man was seen, whose left arm was shattered by a cannon ball, to wrench it off with the other, and throwing it up in the air, exclaimed to his comrades, Vive l'Empereur, jusqu'à la mort!' There were many other instances of the like: this you may, however, depend on as true."- Private Letter from Brussels. III. Would that I were cold with those, Scarce dare trust a man with thee, IV. Would the sycophants of him Could he purchase with that throne Hearts like those which still are thine? V. My chief, my king, my friend, adieu ! Never did I droop before; Never to my sovereign sue, All I ask is to divide Every peril he must brave; Sharing by the hero's side His fall, his exile, and his grave. ON THE STAR OF" THE LEGION OF HONOUR.” [FROM THE FRENCH.] STAR of the brave!-whose beam hath shed Souls of slain heroes form'd thy rays; Like lava roll'd thy stream of blood, Before thee rose, and with thee grew, Of three bright colours (1), each divine, For Freedom's hand had blended them, (1) The tricolour. One tint was of the sunbeam's dyes; The three so mingled did beseem Star of the brave! thy ray is pale, And Freedom hallows with her tread NAPOLEON'S FAREWELL. [FROM THE FREnch.] I. FAREWELL to the Land, where the gloom of my Glory Arose and o'ershadow'd the earth with her name She abandons me now but the page of her story, The brightest or blackest, is fill'd with my fame. I have warr'd with a world which vanquish'd me only The last single Captive to millions in war. II. Farewell to thee, France! when thy diadem crown'd me, I made thee the gem and the wonder of earth,But thy weakness decrees I should leave as I found thee, Decay'd in thy glory, and sunk in thy worth. Oh! for the veteran hearts that were wasted In strife with the storm, when their battles were won Then the Eagle, whose gaze in that moment was blasted, Had still soar'd with eyes fix'd on victory's sun! III. Farewell to thee, France!—but when Liberty rallies Then turn thee and call on the Chief of thy choice! |