CHICAGO.-October 10, 1871.
Blackened awd bleeding, helpless, panting;
prone, , ... On the chaired fragments of her shattered throne Lies she who stood but yesterday alone.
Queen of the West -f by some enchantertaught A To lift the glory of Aladdin's Court, Then lose the spell that all that wonder wrought." ;
Like her own prairies by some chance seed, sown, r Like her own prairies in ona brief day
grown, . . ; • .•_ Like her own prairies in one fierce night mown.
She lifts her Tdice, and in hsr pleading call ; •;_■■ ■ ;"• '-f We hear the cry of Macedon to Paul— The cry for help that makes her kih to all.
But haply with her wan fingers- may she feel ' The silver cup hid in the proffered meal— The gifts bur kinship and our Wes reveals • BbbtHabtb.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 155, 23 February 1872, Page 5
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131CHICAGO.-October 10, 1871. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 155, 23 February 1872, Page 5
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