Sibyl Leaves; To Which Is Added a Vision of Eternity. to Which Is Added a Vision of Eternity (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827. Excerpt: ... If yearnings toward thy fallen race Reach thee in thy high resting-place By the Land which heroes trod Once--however fallen now By each mountain's storied brow, By each battle-field's blest sod--All their records past take thou And appeal to Freedom's God That they may again be free And dash their chains to earth, and live--Or, crushed out by their tyrants, give Their deathless souls to heaven and thee LEONID AS AT THE PASS. From his flashing eye shot forth But they stood alone in their country's love; SONG He hath sunk upon his knee: His last stroke of death is given, And his steel to fragments riven, But that red arm still is free And waved wildly back in air As the bolt were grasped there, Which with latest vengeance sped Would levelling sweep them with the dead Back they reeled from him--though now Pallid was that dauntless brow, And his raised arm drooping sunk. As the branch sinks from the oak When the storm and lightning's stroke Hath bowed to earth the mighty trunk. Shout of triumph died away: Though the hunters were at bay, And each arm advanced to strike And crush him, they forebore alike; For though thousand bows were bent And the foe's last struggles spent, Though the serried spears were round him, And the phalanx darkly bound him: Sparks of that undying wrath, Which, though quenched the power to kill, Made them quail before him still: They with awe and fear stood by To look upon a hero die His helm was cloven, and the blood, That oozing from his long hair flowed, Now mingled with the gushing tide That welled forth from his fainting side. His shield was far behind him cast--Beneath his foot lay stretched the last, The bravest of the foe that dared The fate the slaves who fled had shared, When cowering back they left him there A wounded...