. Book of the Royal blue . ncesof the kingdom and loaded with honors, wasnow execrated and obliged to flee from thecountry, a country which he had beggaredwithout enriching himself, in order to dis-charge the debts of the crown. The gen-eral distress was so great that the govern-ment was under the necessity of providingrelief. Upward of five hundred thousandsuflierers, chiefly fathers of families, pre- sented their whole fortunes in paper and thegovernment, after liquidating these debts toa fabulous sum, found itself with a stillfurther debt of over sixteen hundred mil-lion livres. Thus ended
. Book of the Royal blue . ncesof the kingdom and loaded with honors, wasnow execrated and obliged to flee from thecountry, a country which he had beggaredwithout enriching himself, in order to dis-charge the debts of the crown. The gen-eral distress was so great that the govern-ment was under the necessity of providingrelief. Upward of five hundred thousandsuflierers, chiefly fathers of families, pre- sented their whole fortunes in paper and thegovernment, after liquidating these debts toa fabulous sum, found itself with a stillfurther debt of over sixteen hundred mil-lion livres. Thus ended in Prance the famous Mis-sissippi Scheme, ruinous to individuals, butultimately beneficial to the nation. Itsefl^orts were not however confined to thekingdom. Many foreigners came to Franceto seek investments in the stocks and theytoo were heavy losers. The South SeaBubble was evidently borrowed from this,great scheme and with its operation we seere-enacted in England the terrors wroughtby the Mississippi Scheme in THE SOLDIER. BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEV. T HE Soldier! Meek the title, yet divine; Therefore, with reverence, as with wild fain would honor in exalted line The glorious lineage of the glorious name;The Soldier! Lo, he ever was, and is. Our Countrys high custodian, by rightOf patriot blood that brims that heart of his With fiercest love, vet honor infinite. Aye, glad and grateful that in such a cause His veins were drained at Freedoms holy shrine-Rechristening the land — as first it was. His blood poured thus in sacramental signOf new baptism of the hallowed name My Country—now on every lip once moreAnd blest of Coil with still enduring fame. This thought even then The Soldier gloried oer. The Soldier — within whose inviolate care The Nation takes repose, her inmost faneOf Freedom ever has its guardian there. As have her forts and fleets on land and main;The heavenward banner as its ripples stream In happy winds, or float in languid
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