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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 905, 30 December 1870, Page 2

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"3 UFO BE SEDAN:* Here is one of the many sad pictures "Before Sedan.." The tale is a true one, and almost as pathetic as that of the soldier in his death ihroeson the field, managed to write " A Kiss" to his wife; — v Here, in this leafy place, Qdiet he lies, Cold, with his sightless face ; Turned to the skies; 'Tis but aaother dead; — All you can say is said, Carry his body hence, — Kings must have slaves; Kings climb to eminence Over men's graves; So this man's eye is dim ; Throw the earth over him. What was the white you touched, There, at his side ? Paper his hand had clutched Tight ere he died ! Message or wish may be; — Smoothen it out aud see, Hardly the worst of us Here could have smiled! Only the tremulous Words of a child ; Prattle, that has for stops Just a lew ruddy drops. Look. She is sad to miss, Morning aud night, His—her dead father's kiss; Tries to be bright, Good to mamma and sweet, That is all. " Marguerite? Ah, if beside the dead Slumbered the pain J Ah, if the hearts that bled Slept with the slain! If the grief died ! —But no; Death will not have it so. > —Macmillan's Magazine.