Brise les socs: Break the plows

"Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade

For arms like yours were fitter now ; And let the hands that ply the pen

Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein

The charger on the battle-field."

— Bryant.

Page 67. 7. volupté des combats: delight of battîe.

" Nor war's wild note nor glory's peal

Shall thrill with fierce delight Those hearts that nevermore may feel

The rapture of the fight."

— O'Hara.

14. évoquez les martyrs de notre sainte liberté: invoke the martyrs of our holy liberty.

"O mighty hearts that held the world in thrall! Corne f rom your graves ! "

— JuLiA Ward Howe.

16. Louise was the wife of King Frederick William IIL As queen of Prussia she commanded universal respect and affection, and nothing in Prussian history is more pathetic than the patience and dignity with which she bore her sufferings during the war between Prussia and France. When her country was absolutely in the power of France, she made a personal visit to Napoléon to plead for her people, She died when she was but thirty-four years of âge, in the year 1810. No other queen in modem times has been so sincerely mourned. A beautiful mausoleum is erected to her memory in Charlottenburg, where she is buried. This stanza in Mrs. Heman's poem on the " Queen of Prussia's Tomb," describes the statue which rests upon her grave :

"The folded hands, the calm, pure face,

The mantle's quiet flow, The gentle yet majestic grâce

Throned on the matron brow ; Thèse, in that scène of tender gloom

With a still glory, robe the tomb."

18. Ferdinand of Brunswick was the famous Prussian gênerai of the Seven Year's War. He contributed to the victory of Prague in 1757, defeated the Count of Clermont at Crefeld in 1758, and won a brilliant victory over Marshal Contades at Minden in