A DECEIVER.
, Maiden fair, of sylph-like grace, Heads tbe beauties of her race. , Are her eyes of azure hue, ■ j Like the heavens' ethereal blue; I Bubbles forth her voice, as notes Which issue from the song-birds' throats? Once I loved this lady fair, Broken now; my heart's dull care Can be but softened by her voice, Never more be made rejoice. Be thou guarded, el»e thy love, Restored, may like Roman anguish prove. Moss Kosk. Thames, Ootober 7th, 1881.
The following anecdote is related of the late President of the United States :;—ln April 1865, the land shuddered with horror at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln : New York was in a ferment of fury; The crowd before the Exchange were about to wreak their vengeance on the office of The World,' when a solemn voice was heard : " Fellow citizens ! Clouds and darkness are round about Him. Justice and judgment are the establishment of His throne! Mercy and truth shall go before His face! 1 Fellow citizens! God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives." The speaker was President Garfield. The effect was electric: tranquility was restored and the awful scenes that would have from the popular desperation were avoided. The Paris TJnivers quotes from La olonne an awful instance of the sudden vindication of the outraged majesty of Almighty God upon ten unfortafiate wretches. The journal in question states that on Good Friday thirteen Freethinkers of Boulogne assembled at a Masonic lodge for the atrocious purpose of enacting a 1 parody of the last Supper. Wine ofs these unfortunate men have, within a few days, been carried off by death. A tenth participator, who bad enacted the part of our x)ivine Saviour, was, within a fortnight of the perpetration of the horrible sacrilege, seized with a frightful malady, and swept to his dark account in the course of twenty-four hours. The first victim was he who enacted the part of Judas. The following day he was 'attacked by a disease producing almost initantaneons decomposition, and on Baiter Sunday he was a mass of dead putrefaction. . ■ . -
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3986, 7 October 1881, Page 3
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347A DECEIVER. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3986, 7 October 1881, Page 3
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