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marched to conquest--conquest of a pump!?Like Falstaff, seeks repose and dreams of glory,?While Bethel's thunder peal'd another story;?Leaves gallant Winthrop to his mournful fate,?But takes the field when haply 'tis too late.?Wrath gnaws his bowels, and with words profane,?He swore an oath, as once the Queen of Spain?Vowed the same garment _malgr��_ wear and tear,?Till Ostend fell she would forever wear.?Our hero vowed Magruder's works to take,?Whereof the books no mention deign to make;?For well we know the batt'ries poured their thunder,?While wise Sir Spoons sought easier paths to plunder.?But _Io Bacche_! Victory comes at last--?Our doughty chief in New Orleans is cast;
[Illustration: ""I'll blow Fort Fisher 'mong the region kites!"
Oh, glorious thought! but ere the fort ignites,
Our Cyclop's sailed away infirm of will,
And saucy Fisher flashed defiance still." _Page_ 25.]
The donkey stole the lion's skin and brayed,?And Farragut our Cyclop's fortune made.?Where are the trophies of our Yankee brave??The lecherous order, and poor Mumford's grave;?Ship Island's tortures, Mrs. Phillips' cell,?For mercy's reign the cruelty of hell;?A Shylock brother--a Pr?torian band--?A starving city and a plundered land:?These are his triumphs--Fisher was his shame,--?Oh! triumph worse than is the coward's name.?"I'll blow Fort Fisher 'mong the region kites!"?Oh, glorious thought! but ere the fort ignites,?Our Cyclop's sailed away infirm of will,?And saucy Fisher flash'd defiance still.?"Far better I were _hermetically_ seal'd,?Than homeward borne upon a bloody shield."
[Illustration: "But hold, enough; no further we'll pursue
The modern Haynau. "Bottled" Chief, adieu." _Page_ 27.]
"Fort Fisher be my epitaph!" 'Tis meet,?For long ago it gave thy winding sheet.?But hold, enough; no further we'll pursue?The modern Haynau. "Bottled" Chief, adieu.?Haply my country's freedom still remains,?And with the night have passed oppression's chains:?Oh, may the storms which settle o'er our land?Be gently lifted by th' all-saving Hand;?The dove return; fraternal discord cease,?And millions join the Jubilee of Peace!

FOOTNOTES
[1] He entered College in his sixteenth year as a future candidate for the ministry. As he was without resources, he was compelled to do manual work to meet the expenses incurred at the Institution. The fact is creditable.
[2] Many instances are related of his insubordination at school and disputes with superiors. One of the preachers having advanced the opinion that only one in every hundred Christians would, perhaps, be saved, our hero drew up a theological petition asking leave to vacate his seat in church, very candidly regarding himself as among the number that would be lost. A public reprimand for his smart irreverence was the only answer vouchsafed the unfledged Doctor.
[3] _Monstrum et horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum._ Virg. ?neid. lib. iii.
[4] The people of a captured city were subjected to fines and levies and open plunder, and in some instances imprisoned at hard labor with ball and chain.
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