And the glorious sun once more looks down Amidst the dazzling day. "He is coming! he is coming!' Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison, To the scaffold and the doom. There was glory on his forehead, There was lustre in his eye, And he never walked to battle More proudly than to die; There was color in his visage, Though the cheeks of all were wan, And they marvelled as they saw him pass, That great and goodly man! He mounted up the scaffold, And he turned him to the crowd; The eye of God shone through: As though the thunder slept within- The grim Geneva ministers With anxious scowl drew near, As you have seen the ravens flock Around the dying deer. He would not deign them word nor sign, But alone he bent the knee, And veiled his face for Christ's dear grace Beneath the gallows-tree. Then radiant and serene he rose, And cast his cloak away; For he had ta'en his latest look Had ever ceased to pray For the Royal race they loved so well, From the steadfast Scottish cavaliers, His father drew the righteous sword And chiefs of ancient names, He never owned the foreign rule, But kept his clan in peace at home, And when they asked him for his oath, And pointed to his bonnet blue, That bore the white cockade: Like a leal old Scottish cavalier, At length the news ran through the land, - That night the fiery cross was sped O'er mountain and through glen; And our old baron rose in might, And rode away across the hills To Charlie and his men, With the valiant Scottish cavaliers, He was the first that bent the knee 14 FROM BURIAL MARCH OF DUNDEE. OPEN wide the vaults of Athol, where the bones of heroes rest; Last of Scots, and last of freemen, last of all that dauntless race Hands that never failed their country, hearts that never baseness knew. Sleep!-and till the latest trumpet wakes the dead from earth and Scotland shall not boast a braver chieftain than our own Dundee ! 751 MASSIMO TAPARELLI AZEGLIO. AZEGLIO, MASSIMO TAPARELLI, MARCHESE D', Italian statesman and author, was born at Turin, October 24, 1798, and died there, January 15, 1866. In 1830, Azeglio removed to Milan, where he married the daughter of the poet and novelist, Alessandro Manzoni, which step decided his course toward a literary career interspersed with politics. A novel entitled "Ettore Fieramosca" was published in 1833, and this was followed by "Niccolo di Lapi" in 1841. His "Degli Ultimi Casi di Romagna," treating of the last occurrences in the Romagna, was written before Pope Gregory XVI.'s death, in 1846. In 1848, his work on the "Austrian Assassination in Lombardy" was published. He held the office of Premier from May 11, 1844, to October 20, 1852, when Count Cavour succeeded him. RECOLLECTIONS. My dear parents' foremost wish was to make a man of me. They knew that education must begin with the dawn of life; that it must grow with the growth and strengthen with the strength; that the germ of the future man lies in the first impression of childhood; and that adulation and incitement to pride and vanity, though they may be a mistaken form of parental affection, are in fact the worst of lessons for the child, and the most baneful in their results. They also knew well that the mind of a youth is a tablet from which no line once graven can ever after be effaced. . . . In a word, the aim of my parents was to prepare me for the warfare of life, such as it really becomes in after years. And this useful training consists mainly in acquiring a habit of selfsacrifice, and in learning how to suffer. Verily, if the excess of affection which leads parents to spoil their children were not in itself a touching excuse, what bitter reproaches might fall on those parents who enervate their sons by a childhood of luxury and indulgence, those who, knowing the while that they must one day have to endure both burning heat and biting frost, knowing also that, in after life, they |