. Ballads of bravery. i^^IHE shades of night were falHng fast,As through an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, mid snow and ice,A banner, with the strange ! His brow was sad; his eye, like a falchion from its sheath;And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior! In happy homes he saw the lightOf household fires gleam warm and , the spectral glaciers shone ;And from his lips escaped a ! Try not the pass! the old man said; Dark lowers the tempest overhead!The roaring torrent is deep and wide ! And loud t
. Ballads of bravery. i^^IHE shades of night were falHng fast,As through an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, mid snow and ice,A banner, with the strange ! His brow was sad; his eye, like a falchion from its sheath;And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior! In happy homes he saw the lightOf household fires gleam warm and , the spectral glaciers shone ;And from his lips escaped a ! Try not the pass! the old man said; Dark lowers the tempest overhead!The roaring torrent is deep and wide ! And loud that clarion voice replied,Excelsior! Vijt^. BALLADS OF BRAVERY. 139 #s Oh! stay, the maiden said, and restThy weary head upon this breast!A tear stood in his bright blue eye;But still he answered, with a ! Beware the pine-trees withered branch !Beware the awful avalanche ! This was the peasants last voice replied, far up the height,Excelsior! At break of day, as heavenwardThe pious monks of St. BernardUttered the oft-repeated prayer,A voice cried, through the startled air,Excelsior! A traveller by the faithful hound,Half buried in the snow, was found,Still grasping in his hand of iceThe banner with the strange device,Excelsior ! There, in the twilight cold and gray,Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay;And from the sky, serene and far,A voice fell, like a falling star, —Excelsior! ?!€ 140 BALLADS OF BRAVERY. The Soldiei\^
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