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    LAST YEAR'S ASIAN CAMPAIGN. A Oamjpaivn ...

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    Maud And Other Poems. Maud And Otjier Po...

    SM bTSTSSSi- havedeceased . ¦ S SJStSSfA ^ SS '^ ** delicious East , "i : r . .. sascswa ^ i ^ ^ - -- * " ** " ' Uooh a pastoral slope as fair , _ 2 Sl £ aWT » - « l * South and fed V , •¦ ^ n 5 i honey M rain and aeBcate air , " And haunted by the Btarry head And made my life a perfumed altar-flame , ; - .:.,-, With sdci delight as their * of oW * thy great E IS ^ StSSK ESSS- * - --^^^^^^ s ? sr -. Goin , and out as if at merry play , - Who am . no more so all forlorn , As when it seem'd far better tobe born To labour and the mattock-harden'd land , Than nursed at ease and brought to understand ~ - A sad astrology , the boundless p !* i " - That makes you tyrants in your iron skies , innumerable , pitiless , passionless eyes . Cold fires , yet with power to burn and brand '"¦ His nothingness . into man . " ; - But now shine on , and what care I , Who is ibis stormy golf have found a pearl The countercharm of space and hollow sky , ' And do accept . my madness , and would die # To save from some slight shame one simple girl . And hare . °£ ^ £ ~ t a dream , yet it yielded a dear delight ¦ .. ffiffiK ^^ 4 ^ s . = "JBa ? f . That an iron ^ ranny now should bend or cease , ThTglory of manhood stand bn his ancient height , Nor Britain ' s one sole God be the millionaire : No more shall commerce be all in all , and Peace Pipe on he ^ paaloral hillock a languid note , And watch her harvest ripen , her herd increase , Nor the cannon-bullet rust on a slothful shore , And the cobweb woven across the cannon s throat , $ haU shake itt threaded tears in the wind no more . And as months ran on and rumour of battle grew , " It is time , it is time , O passionate heart , said I ( For I deaved to a cause that I felt to be pure and true ) , " It is time , O passionate heart and morbid eye , That old hysterical mock-disease should die . And I stood on a giant deck and mut'd my breath With a loyal people shouting a , batqe cry Tfll I saw th ^ dreary ph ^ toxn ariso and fly ^ x ^ ar into the North ,, » nd battle ,, and seas of deathrkV * "' ¦ ' Let it go or stay , so I wake to thehighe - r aims «¦;¦ : ^ ulSnd that has lost *> r a little her lust of gold , , ] *•• ¦ ' ... i i ^ d love of a peace that was full of wrongs and shames , lu- " : ¦ ¦ Horrible , hateful , monstrous , not tobe told ; And hail once more to the banner of battle ™™ J ** . Tho' many a light shall darken , and many shall weep ; • : For those that £ re crush'd in the clash of jarring claims , Yet God ' s just doom shall be wreaked on a giant uar ; And many a darkness into the light shall leap , , „ ..,.. ¦ And shine in the sudden making of splendid names , i , And noble thought be freer under the sun , ., „ r . . - And the heart of a people beat with one desire ; JFor the long , long canker of perice is over and done . iSd now b # the Sde of the Black and the Baltic deep , ' . *' , " -.- And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress , flames mw _ T . i ~~^_ w ^ ., Mrt «« i /» m « f -war with . a heart of fire .

    4 flide . ! Last Weejt came one to the county town , ' » " - ¦ •' ¦ ' To p ' rqaijh pur pop ? ^ ttje army down , f-i ¦; ¦ ¦ ¦¦¦ Tho ' . the state has done H and thrice as well : . ¦¦ - > ' ¦ •>¦' ¦ ¦¦ ' ; ' li ; *& Wl | i 0 tn » ^ th Ate ' cotton ,, and r ^ ngs i . > r << - ' ' ¦ ' :: i '' ^ 7 » W ^^^ ^ * v ^^ ? t ? 1 ¦ ?¦>¦ '" ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ' ¦¦" ' ' " TJiiihuckster put down war f can he tell Whether war be a pause or a cojisequencei / Put downthe passions that moke earth Hell ! . ' ¦' ¦¦ , jiftwiv # ith amb ^^ on , Avarice , pride , Jealousy , down If iut off frojn t ^ e mind ¦ ¦¦¦¦ ' ' ^ Oie ' bittbr springs of apger and fear ; iWn ' i to ? , down at your own fireside , With the evil tongue and the ev £ ear , j' ^ or each is at war with mankind . Ah Godr for a in , an , with o heprt , head , hand , v I'' i , | k « some of tno simple great ones gone For ever and ever by , /) il oW « t'H strong man in a blatant land , &" . ' . > ' Whatever tliey call him , ^ h * lt care I , nl AriiJtbcriit , ' democrat , autocrat—one '' ? . . > - , - ,, Who can rule and dare not He . lUtJ df course a po 6 t does not care . But if he were serious we mi p ht remind ,, WtotS ^ X " noble thought to be freer under the . unhand that

    the oaly <* *»«« of bringing thia about is by Wing ope ^^ TennyBon is eve r great and beaa fial in eynieal p H ^ spp hy : ^ Ike ^ p but a man tnd a maid , ^ verready to slander- andsteal , I know i t , and smile a hard-set smile , like a atoic , or like A wiser epicarean , and let the world have its way : And £ whole Httle wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey . We are puppets , Man in his pride , and Beauty fair in ^ er flower ; Do wtin ^ ourselves , or are moved by anunseen hand at . t game That pushes us off from the board , and others ever succeed ? Ah vet we cannot be kind to each other here for an hour ; We whisper , and hint , and chuckle , and grin at a brother's shame ; However we brave it out , we men are a bttle breed . A monstrous eft was of old the Lord and Master of Earth , For him did his high sun flame , and his river billowing ran , And he feft himsetf in his force to be Nature ' s crownmS *^ - Is nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man . He now is first , but is he the last ? is he not too base ? The man of science himself is fonder of glory ^^ nd y * J ° V . ^ rs ^ as ^^ JTfSKgSw-. Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice . sfrgK & sis SiKs , *

    mmmmm Wimimmm l i S ^ fUl g ^ ss ^^^ s A good deal of art is visible , and more perhaps will todwenAby saLisWvi tts & or p = t ^ sar ^ s ^ astr ^ s = sur = ss , wjtt ? p ^ Sr S the mind with great force wl . en the duel takes place m ^ ««« "Pg ; £ the battle-song which Maud is heard by her Kver singing early m the poeni i " the far-off prelude to the call which her spirit gives >» m to battle m tho

    The melancholy and misanthropic character of the lover of ^_ coji « e . ntensifies the happiness which is to him not only the triumph of Jm Iw , but a resurrection out of the abyss of mental darkness and despondency in which he has been lying : — And ye meanwhile far over moor and foil Beat to tho noiseless muaic of the night ! Has our whole earth gone nearer to the glow Of your eoft splendours that you look ao bright t I have clinib'd nearer out of lonely Hell . Beat , happy stars , timing with things below , Beat with my heart moro blest than heart can toll , Blest , but for some dark undercurrent woe That seema to draw—but it shall not bo so : Let al l bo well , bo well . Of the other poems in the volume the principal is ^ 'Hi e Brook , an idyl ~ Xot Tennyson ' s best , for it is deficient in interest and distinctpcss , thougli ^ nas setTrTlt BomJfarming songs . The " Dais / ' is a brief and cxqu « . e description of a tour in tho north of Italy . The Ode on the Duke of W « l-SngtoS ( altered for the better by the omission of the most prosaic . lines ) , anf the Lines on the Bahklava Charge ( altered , but we foubt vhoAcp for the better ) , with three other short poems , including a pretty , and we hi no doubt effectual , consolation of tfr . Maurice , on h . s ™^^ **™ " College Council , " complete thin volume , so desired by all lovers of poetry , and born to certain fame .

    « Ho Fast To The B Of. . : *^^ M^Mm »«Wp...

    « ho fast to the b of . . : *^^ m ^ mM »« wp * r . —t t 9 vM ' . G- ' ¦ .. .. ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ' i— —• rrr = z —— —^ m ^^ mm ^ tammmmmw ^>^—W ^^^^ " ^ - ¦ - - . "" - y . x — * V . » v Imnn nf I

    Last Year's Asian Campaign. A Oamjpaivn ...

    LAST YEAR ' S ASIAN CAMPAIGN . A Oamjpaivn «* f t the Turk , in Asia . By Charles Duncan , Bo ^ ta Jjo V ^ Jj-JJ Tilb-title-which Mr . Duncan has bestowed upon his book wnrceh ' does it JuSce Those who ore familiar with military ^ " •"" J " "" JSj . ^ military work , strictly confined to the m . htary movements on either .. Uc

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 4, 1855, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04081855/page/16/