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Show RECALLED BY RECENT EVENTS. The following verses from Swinburne's "Ode to Russia," published In im, are recUIed by recent events. Thev were written of Alexander, the father of Nicholas Nich-olas and are said to have lost Swinburne the Laureateship: God or man be swift; hope 6ickens with delay: Smite, and send him howling down his father's way! Fall, O tire of heaven, and smite as fire from hell Halls wherein men's torturers, crowned and cowering, dwell! Thes that crouch and shrink and shudder, shud-der, girt with power These that reign, and dare not trust one trembling hour These omnipotent, whom terror curbs and drives' The.e whose life reflects In fear their vie- tirrw' lives The.e whose breath sheds poison worse than plague's thick breath These whose reign is run,, these whose word is death. Thfse whose turns heaven to hell, anfl day to night. These. If God s hand smite not, how shall man's not smite? So from hearts by horror withered as by fire Surge the strnlns of unappeasable desire; Sounds that bid the darkness lighten, lit for death: Bid the Hps whose breath was doom yield up their breath: Down the way of I'zars, awhile In vain deferred. Rid the Second Alexander light the Third. How for shame shull men rebuke them? How may we BiTirie. whose fathers died, and slew, to leave us free? We, though all the world cry out upon them, know. Were our strife as theirs, we could not strike but so; Could not cower Hnd could not kiss the . hands that smite; Coulu not meet them armed in sunlit battle's bat-tle's light Dark as tear and red as hate though mornlnor rise, Life It is that conquers; death It Is that dies. i v i ' |