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Title: Ballads of bravery
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Baker, George Melville, 1832-1890
Subjects: English poetry
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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i^^IHE shades of night were falHng fast,As through an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, mid snow and ice,A banner, with the strange device.Excelsior! His brow was sad; his eye, beneath.Flashed like a falchion from its sheath;And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior! In happy homes he saw the lightOf household fires gleam warm and bright.Above, the spectral glaciers shone ;And from his lips escaped a groan.Excelsior! Try not the pass! the old man said; Dark lowers the tempest overhead!The roaring torrent is deep and wide ! And loud that clarion voice replied,Excelsior! Vijt^
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BALLADS OF BRAVERY. 139 #s Oh! stay, the maiden said, and restThy weary head upon this breast!A tear stood in his bright blue eye;But still he answered, with a sigh.Excelsior! Beware the pine-trees withered branch !Beware the awful avalanche ! This was the peasants last good-night.A voice replied, far up the height,Excelsior! At break of day, as heavenwardThe pious monks of St. BernardUttered the oft-repeated prayer,A voice cried, through the startled air,Excelsior! A traveller by the faithful hound,Half buried in the snow, was found,Still grasping in his hand of iceThe banner with the strange device,Excelsior ! There, in the twilight cold and gray,Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay;And from the sky, serene and far,A voice fell, like a falling star, —Excelsior! ■!€ 140 BALLADS OF BRAVERY. The Soldiei\^

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