This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... hastily a Messenger. Messenger. Most weighty news, my liege, from Italy. Napoleon. Yes? Messenger. Rome is taken. The imperial walls Yawn where the cannon smote; in the red streets, Romans embracing shout for Liberty; From Florence to Messina bonfires blaze, And rockets rise and vivas fill the air; And with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... hastily a Messenger. Messenger. Most weighty news, my liege, from Italy. Napoleon. Yes? Messenger. Rome is taken. The imperial walls Yawn where the cannon smote; in the red streets, Romans embracing shout for Liberty; From Florence to Messina bonfires blaze, And rockets rise and vivas fill the air; And with the thunder in his aged ears, Surrounded by his cold-eyed cardinals, Clutching his spiritual crown more close, Trembling with dotage, sits the grey-haired Pope, Anathematizing in the Vatican. Exit. Officer. Woe to the head on whom his curse shall fall, For in the day of judgment it shall be Better with Sodom and Gomorrah. Wait! This is the twilight; red will rise the dawn. Napoleon. Peace, friend; yet if it ease thy heart, speak on. I would to God, I did believe in God As thou dost. Twilight surely--'tis indeed A twilight--and therein from their fair spheres Kings shoot like stars. How many nights of late The heavens have troubled been with fiery signs, With characters like monstrous hieroglyphs, And the aurora, brighter than the day And red as blood, has burnt from west to east. Officer. I do believe the melancholy air Is full of pain and portent. Napoleon. Would to God I had more faith in God, for in this work I fail to trace His hand; but rather feel The nether-shock of earthquake everywhere Shaking old thrones and new, those rear'd on rock As well as those on sand. All darkens yet, And in that darkness, while with cheeks of snow The affrighted people gaze at one another, The Teuton still, mouthing of Deity, Works steadfastly to some mysterious end. My heart was never Rome's so much as now, Now, when she shares my cup of agony. Agony! Is this agony: then, indeed, All life is agony. Officer. Your Imperial Highness Is suffering! Take...
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