In glory to his ocean sleep.
And she—the loved, the lost, the friend
Of youth’s unclouded years—
Alas! remembrances but tend
To dim the past with tears:
Yet still my latest sigh shall be
Sacred, my native land! to thee!
THE DEATH OF ST. LOUIS.
St. Louis of France, who embarked with an army for Palestine in 1270, landing at Tunis, was besieged by the inhabitants in the town of Carthage, and with great numbers of his people, fell a victim to the plague. In his dying moments he caused himself to be removed from his couch, and placed upon ashes; and in that situation expired.
The sun had well nigh set; on Afric’s strand