CXIX.- BATTLE HYMN, AND FAREWELL TO LIFE. Low'ER (lou ́er), v. i., to appear dark. SE'RAPH-IC (se-rafic), a., pertaining GUISE, n., garb; manner. to or like a seraph. Theodore Korner, the martial poet of Germany, and author of the following poems, was born in the year 1791, and fell in battle August 25, 1813, when scarcely twenty-two years Ald. FATHER of earth and heaven! I call thy name! Round me the smoke and shout of battle roll; That crowns or closes round the struggling hour, One deeper prayer, 't was that no cloud might lower Now for the fight! Now for the cannon-peal! Forward-through blood, and toil, and cloud, and fire! Glorious the shout, the shock, the crash of steel, The volley's roll, the rocket's blasting spire! They shake! like broken waves their squares retire! On them, hussars! Now give them rein and heel; Think of the orphaned child, the murdered sire: Earth cries for blood! In thunder on them wheel! This hour to Europe's fate shall set the triumph-seal! My deep wound burns; my pale lips quake in death,I feel my fainting heart resign its strife; And, reaching now the limit of my life, Lord, to thy will I yield my parting breath! O, surely no! for all that fired my heart To rapture here, shall live with me on high. And that fair form that won my earliest vow, Stands in seraphic guise before me now; It beckons me on high, to realms of endless day! NICHE (nitch), n., a small recess in | REV'EL-RY, n., noisy merriment. On the night previous to the battle of Waterloo, it is said that a ball was given at Brus. sels. To this the poet alludes in the introductory stanza. The battle was fought June 18, 1815, when the allied army, composed of 67,655 men, commanded by the Duke of Wellington, defeated the French army, of 71,947 men, commanded by Napoleon in person. THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men: Music arose, with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again; And all went merry as a marriage-bell. But, hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it? No; 't was but the wind, On with the dance! let joy be unconfined! No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before. Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain ;* he did hear Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick, and brother of Queen Caroline. He distinguished himself in the Peninsular war. He was killed at the head of his troops two days before the battle of Waterloo. He was born in 1771. That sound the first amid the festival, And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear: And when they smiled, because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well, Which stretched his father on a bloody bier, Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; Last noon beheld them full of lusty life; Last eve, in beauty's circle, proudly gay; The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which, when rent, The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent. BYRON. CXXI.-LOVE IS POWER. AR-BI-TRA'TION, n., the reference of a PER ANNUM (Latin), by the year. SUB-TRACTION, n., the taking of a part | BEL-LIG'ER-ENT (-lij-), a., war-mak ing. AC-COU'TRE-PEC-U-LA'TION, n., theft of public MENTS (-koo'ter-), n. pl., equipage. MAR-TEL'LO TOWER, n., a vaulted round tower for coast defense. money. EN-GEN'DER (-jen-), v. t., to produce. The h in hum'ble ought to be sounded. Give er in ex'er-cise, gov'ern-ments, &c., its true sound, as in her, without stress. 1. WAR may be defined as a people's expedient for accomplishing a purpose by violence. It is expressly so; and all the ingenuity in the world would fail to make it out as any thing else. What a strange ideä! A man who would seek to assert a right, or even to defend himself from wrong, by violence, that is, by taking arms, and wounding or killing those opposed to him, would be regarded as an intolerable barbarian. The laws of his country would hold him as guilty of a capital offense, and he would suffer the severest penalty they were empowered to inflict. 2. But when a collection of men, forming what is called a nation, have a right to be asserted, or a wrong to be redressed, or perhaps only an opinion to be advanced, it is thought quite fair and reasonable that they should use these violent and murderous means. What is forbidden to individuals in every state above the most savage, and hardly tolerated even there, is freely granted to civilized nations, which, accordingly, are every now and then seen falling into bloody fights about matters which, with private men, would be set.. tled by a friendly arbitration, or, at most, a decision in a law court. 3. Some of the evils of war are so manifest as to need only to be mentioned. Such is the destruction of life which it occasions, always followed, of course, by misery to many survivors. Such is the devastation it often introduces into a country which is its seat. The injury it does, by misapplying the national energies and funds, is less apt to be understood. Yet this is one of its greatest evils. War destroys-it never creates or produces. All it does is in the way of subtraction—nothing in the way of addition. 4. The men who become soldiers are kept from useful employment; the money spent in their pay, accouterments, and all the appurtenances of war, is laid out on what makes no return, and is gone forever as truly as if it had been thrown into the sea. The persons, indeed, who furnish the articles required for war, have lived upon the profits of their work; but their work has been unserviceable, whereas it might have been otherwise. Their talents and labor have all been misdirected. Thus, in every point of view, the money spent in war is misspent. 5. War not only takes largely of our existing means, besides anticipating the future, but it paralyzes and blights the powers by which means are acquired. The commerce of a country is usually much deranged by war, in consequence of the shutting up of certain markets, and the danger incurred in reaching others. Manufacturers are consequently thrown idle. All this descends in incalculable miseries upon the humbler classes. 6. But perhaps the most fatal effect of war is the lowering of the moral tone of the people. It sets all their sympathies into wrong directions, and introduces a new set of objects to public notice. Idle parade and gewgaws take the place of solidly-useful matters; men worship what destroys; merit is estimated, not by the |