One deep voice thus arose From a heart which wrongs had riven— Oh! who shall number those That were but heard in Heaven? * For the particulars of this and other scarcely less remarkable circumstances which attended the obsequies of William the Conqueror, see Sismondi's Histoire des Français, vol. iv. p. 480. THE SOUND OF THE SEA. THOU art sounding on, thou mighty sea, For ever and the same! The ancient rocks yet ring to thee, Oh! many a glorious voice is gone, And hush'd is many a lovely one The Dorian flute that sigh'd of yore The harp of Judah peals no more On Zion's awful hill. And Memnon's lyre hath lost the chord And the songs, at Rome's high triumphs pour'd, And mute the Moorish horn, that rang O'er stream and mountain free, And the hymn the leagued Crusaders sang, Hath died in Galilee. Thou liftest up thy solemn voice To every wind and sky, And all our earth's green shores rejoice It fills the noontide's calm profound, And the still midnight hears the sound, Let there be silence, deep and strange, Thou speak'st of one who doth not change- CASABIANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck, The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on-he would not go, Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the admiral of the Orient, remained at his post (in the battle of the Nile), after the ship had taken fire, and all the guns had been abandoned; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud—" Say, father, say He knew not that the chieftain lay "Speak, Father!" once again he cried, -And but the booming shots replied, Upon his brow he felt their breath, And look'd from that lone post of death, And shouted but once more aloud, My father! must I stay ?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in splendor wild, |