Show MOUNT T T. What strange contrasts this earth of ours Noonday midnight are more opposite than the scenes that are constantly passing before our Truth and falsehood walk side by side through our and vice and virtue meet and pass every hour of the The hut of the starving stands in the shadow of the palace of the and the carriage of Dives every day throws the dust of its glittering wheels over the tattered garments of Health and sickness lie down in the same joy and grief look out of the same window and hope and despair dwell under the same The cry of the and the groan of the rise together from the same the funeral procession treads close on the heels of the bridal and the of the lute and viol have scarcely died before the requiem for the dead comes swelling the beautiful and the pure and joy and ecstasies and life and are strangely blended on this our restless What different events have transpired on the same Where the smoke of the Indian's wigwam and the stealthy tread of the wolf and panther was heard over the autumn leaves at the population of New York now surges Where once the queen of the fishermen are spreading their nets on the and the bright waves are rolling over its marble In the apartments of the fox makes his and the dust of the desert is sifting over the forsaken ruins of The in the ancient halls of and the wind of the summer night makes sad music through the rents of the once gorgeous The Arab spurs his steed along the streets of ancient or scornfully stands and curls his lip at the pilgrim pressing wearily to the sepulcher of the The muezzin's voice rings over the bones of the and the desert wind heaps old dust above the foundations of the seven churches of how good and light and chase each other the a form was seen Many years standing on Mount with which the world has since become It was a bright spring as he sat on his steed In the clear his eye rested a scene in the vale which was sublime and appalling enough to quicken the pulsations of the calmest That form was and the scene before the fierce and terrible OF MOUNT From where the Savior once KLEBER had marched with three thousand French soldiers forth into the at the foot of Mount he saw the whole Turkish army drawn up in order of Fifteen thousand and twelve thousand splendid moved in majestic strength on this band of three thousand had scarcely time to throw his handful of men into with the cannon at the before those twelve thousand making the earth smoke and thunder as they burst in a headlong gallop upon But round those squares rolled a devouring emptying the saddles of those wild with frightful and strewing the earth with the bodies of riders and steeds Again and again did those splendid squadrons and charge with deafening while their uplifted and flashing gleamed like a forest of steel through the smoke of but that same wasting fire received till those squares seemed bound by a girdle of so rapid and constant were the Before their certain and deadly as they stood fighting for the charging squadrons fell so that rampart of dead bodies was soon Behind this embankment of dead and this baud of warriors stood and fought for six dreadful and was still steadily thinning the ranks of the when Napoleon debouched with a division on Mount and turned his eye below The whole was filled with march- ng charging squad rons of wildly while the thunder of f the fierce rattle of which now and then were blast of trumpets and martial filled the air The smoke of battle furiously over the confusion and chaos in i l-s Amid the twenty-seven that crowded the enveloped their enemy like a L and amid the incessant artillery and could tell where his own troops were a simultaneous volleys i showed how discipline was 0 tending with the wild valor of nt powering The i flashes from behind that ramps f dead bodies were like flame on the tumultuous and dm f ic Napoleon descended from lie Tabor with his little single fired in the told the wearied that he was rushing to Then for the first time he V pouring his followers on the cad death and terror over the b-i Thrown into and pled under that mighty ans rolled turbulently back toward i where MURAT was w f waiting to mingle in the j Dashing with his cavalry disordered he tie down without and r j like a lion amid the j This chivalric warrior ced that the remembrance of the t that once transpired on f and on these t came to him in the r the and nerved him wi the sun i fold As down over the plains of and twilight shed its dim ray and d the and covered a sulphurous of c hung around the summit The smoke of settled there where once of glory while gro and cries rent the a and what spots for next |