. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . HE shades of night were falling fa^t,As through an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, mid snow andice,A banner with a strange device,Excelsior! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath;And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Exi^ftlsior I In happy homes he saw the lightOf household fires gleam warm and bright;Above, the apectral glaciers shone ;And from his lips escaped a groan,Excelsior ! Try not the j»ass ! the old man
. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . HE shades of night were falling fa^t,As through an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, mid snow andice,A banner with a strange device,Excelsior! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath;And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Exi^ftlsior I In happy homes he saw the lightOf household fires gleam warm and bright;Above, the apectral glaciers shone ;And from his lips escaped a groan,Excelsior ! Try not the j»ass ! the old man said ; Dark lowers the tempest overhead,Tlie roaring torrent is deep and wide !-And loud tliat clarinn voice replied,Excelsior t. Oh! stay, the maiden said, luil n-lThy weary head upcn this breast!A tear stood la bnglit \<\w eye; PADDYS EXCELSIOR. 323 But suil he answered, witli a sigh,Excelsior ! ren-h! Beware the pine-trees the awful avalanche !This was the peasants last good-night;—A voice replied far up the ! At break of day, as heavenwardThe pious monks of St. Bernardlittered the oft-repeated prayer,A voice cried through the startled ! A traveler,—by the faithful buried in the snow was found,Still grasping in his hand of 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 I FADDYS EXCELSIOR
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