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Show A VANISHED HERO. In reading the season's new fiction One misses a figure of size (No evou Dc Morganbh diction Atones for the Iobs In our Qyos): What reader remained all unsmitten With the hero of oaglellke glance The4 hero of whom It w.s written: "Ke wan tho best swordsman In France." When bla,des were crossed oft in a tuvern Or in holding a mob on the stairs Or perchance 'twas a fight in a cavern No blow took this man unawares. His fencing wot; all ono desired; His enemies had a scant chance In facing this hnro, admired, ; "Who was. the best swordsman in France' " Bu.t now all In vain do we wait him; No longor he brightens our days; No longer do swart villalus bait htm No longer his trmUy blade- slays ; We have heroes of other description His sword rusts with "Ivanhce's lanco; ' ' l On his tomb is this simplo inscrip- Itlon: "He was tho best' sword:,man in France." From tho Penver Ropublican. |