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"By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.'

-William Wordsworth.

December 31.

MONTGOMERY AT QUEBEC.

Richard Montgomery was an American Revoutionary general who was killed on Dec. 31, 1775, while leading an attack on Quebec.

Round Quebec's embattled walls
Moodily the patriots lay;
Dread disease within its thralls

Drew them closer day by day;
Till from suffering man to man,
Mutinous, a murmur ran.

Footsore, they had wandered far,

They had fasted, they had bled;
They had slept beneath the star
With no pillow for the head;
Was it but to freeze to stone
In this cruel icy zone?

Yet their leader held his heart,
Naught discouraged, naught dismayed;
Quelled with unobtrusive art

Those that muttered; unafraid
Waited, watchful, for the hour

When his golden chance should flower. 'Twas the death-tide of the year;

Night had passed its murky noon; Through the bitter atmosphere

Pierced nor ray of star nor moon;
But upon the bleak earth beat
Blinding arrows of the sleet.

While the trumpets of the storm
Pealed the bastioned heights around,
Did the dauntless heroes form,

Did the low, sharp order sound. "Be the watchword Liberty!" Cried the brave Montgomery.

Here, where he had won applause,
When Wolfe faced the Gallic foe,
For a nobler, grander cause

Would he strike the fearless blow,-
Smite at Wrong upon the throne,
At Injustice giant grown,

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