CHAPTER XIV.

"My country's standard waved on yonder height;

Her red-eross banner England there display'd;

And there the German, who, for foreign fight,

Had left his own domestic hearth, and made

War, with its horrors and its blood, a trade,

Amid the battle stood; and, all the day,

The bursting bomb, the furious cannonade,

The bugle's martial notes, the musket's play,

In mingled uproar wild resounded far away.