SELECT POETRY.
CHICAGO-October 10, 1871.
Blackened and bleeding, helpless, panting, prone, On the charred fragments of her shattered of / throne iS-Lies she who stood but yesterday alone.
< Queen of the West ! by some enchanter taught £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, lake her own prairies in one brief day grown, Like her own prairies in one fierce night mown. "She lifts her voice, and in her pleading call We hear the cry of Macedou to Paul— The cry for help that makes her kin to all. But haply with her wan fingers may she feel The silver cup hid in the proffered meal— The gifts her kinship and our loves reveaL Bret Habte.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 211, 15 February 1872, Page 7
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132SELECT POETRY. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 211, 15 February 1872, Page 7
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