. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. thought I, as by night I readOf the great army of the dead,The trenches cold and starved and frozen camp,— The wounded from the battle-plain,In drear3- hospitals of pain,The cheerless cold and stony 290 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS. Lo ! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom,And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss,The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls. As
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. thought I, as by night I readOf the great army of the dead,The trenches cold and starved and frozen camp,— The wounded from the battle-plain,In drear3- hospitals of pain,The cheerless cold and stony 290 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS. Lo ! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom,And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss,The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls. As if a door in heaven should beOpened and then closed suddenly,The vision came and went,The light shone and was spent. On Englands annals, through the longHereafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall cast From portals of the past, A lady with a lamp shall standIn the great history of the land, A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood. Nor even shall be wanting hereThe palm, the lily, and the spear, The symbols that of yore Saint Filomena bore. —H. W.
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