FRANCE.
A fcdfcit BY IANCBLOT BOOlfl.
Oh! woeful days now Xc on Gaul! Oh!bloody Upon hertt heaped that fright the Freed froXaders' ruthless arm., her children (sad Dispute, contend, and savagely each other kill and slay.
Poor weeping Paris, wrapped in flames! her streets Her once'eay n°ob™palaces re-echo sounds of war. ?ierc "shrieks of conflict fill the air : the earth reWith Son* with victors' shouts, and groans of dying men.
Strong barricades cross gory streets, where madden'd "With fury grapple kinsmen's throats, loud cnr»ing as Fair women too their sex forget, and mingle in the With streaming looks, and bleeding breast*-a weird unholy sight.
Lank famine, .hungry, walks abroad, with hollow AmldsUhe starving' combatants, rejoicing at their
Death'gloats o'er all, but, greedy still, he craving
•For victims 3 new™ and sweeps along mora deadly than befovo.
(To be continued),
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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 497, 14 August 1871, Page 3
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139FRANCE. Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 497, 14 August 1871, Page 3
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