. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . nt of thy kindness or thy truth; ii 90 EMBARKATION OF THE EXILES. tliou art a friend, and hast ever wronged, in thought, or word, or deed, thespirit that generously confided in thee; if thou art a lover, and hast evergiven one unmerited pang to that true heart that now lies cold and stillbeneath thy feet; then be sure that every unkind look, every ungraciousword, every ungentle action will come thronging back upon thy memory, andknock dolefully at thy soul; then be sure that thou wil
. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . nt of thy kindness or thy truth; ii 90 EMBARKATION OF THE EXILES. tliou art a friend, and hast ever wronged, in thought, or word, or deed, thespirit that generously confided in thee; if thou art a lover, and hast evergiven one unmerited pang to that true heart that now lies cold and stillbeneath thy feet; then be sure that every unkind look, every ungraciousword, every ungentle action will come thronging back upon thy memory, andknock dolefully at thy soul; then be sure that thou wilt lie down sorrowingand repentant in the grave and utter the unheard groan, and pour the un-availing tear, more deep, more bitter, because unheard and weave thy chaplet of flowers, and strew the beauties of natureabout the grave; console thy broken spirit, if thou canst, with thesetender, yet futile tributes of regret; but take warning by the bitterness ofthis thy contrite affliction over the dead, and henceforth be more faithfuland affectionate in the discharge of thy duties to the EMBARKATION OF THE EXILES. FROM LONiJFHLLOWS EVANGELINE. jIIKN diHorder prcvailoil, .in<l tho tu- i Wives were torn from Ihoir liushandM, ntiirnult ari<l Htir of crnlcirking. motlierH, loo late, saw Mieir cliildnri _^7jXN^ BuHily [ilifvl tlio freif^htcfl boats; and | Left on tlie land, exttinding their arms, will) in tlio confusion wildest entreaties. THE GENEROUS SOLDIER SAVED. 97 So unto separate ships are Basil and Gabriel carried,While in despair on the shore, Evangeline stood with her the task was not done wlieu the sua went down, and the twilightDeepened and darkened around ; and in haste the refluent oceanFled away from the shore, and left the line of the sand-beachCovered with waifs of the tide, with kelp and the slippery back in the midst of the household goods and the wagons,Like to a gypsy camp, or a leaguer after a battle, e
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