We saw mangled and torn in its bloody path.
We paused a while where a family stood,
Partaking the sacred “body and blood;”
And we saw their mother unfaltering pray,
When life’s mellow evening way failing away;
And as she sighed out her last tremulous breath,
Was ended my first wild ride with Death.
—From the Knickerbocker.
ANCIENT SEAL OF THE ISLAND OF SAINT COLMOC.
