Nature all calm—all sympathy—around!

Instead of that false mockery and wo,

Which city pageants, grand and heartless, show.

Numbered among the village dead I’d lie,

This be my resting-place whene’er I die!

No epitaph—no tomb-stoned fulsome fame,

But simply this—the record of my name.


THE CAPTIVES.

A TALE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.