The Model Speaker. Consisting of Exercises in Prose And Poetry. for the Use of Schools, Academies, And Colleges
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Around the holy temple creep ; — The gate is burst ! a ruffian band Rush in, and savagely demand. With brutal voice and oath profane. The startled boy for exile's chain ! The mother sprang with gesture wild. And to her bosom clasped her child ; Then, with pale cheek and flashing eye, Shouted, with fearful energy, " Back, ruffians, back ! nor dare to tread Too near the body of my dead ! Nor touch the living boy ; I stand Between him and your lawless band! Take m.e, and bind these arms, these han...ds, With Russia's heaviest iron bands. And drag me to Siberia's wild. To perish, if 't will save my child I " 19* 222 THE MODEL SPEAKER. " Peace, woman, peace ! " the leader cried, Tearing the pale boy from her side, And in his ruffian grasp he bore His victim to the temple door. " One moment ! " shrieked the mother ; " one! Will land or gold redeem my son? Take heritage, take name, take all, But leave him free from Russian thrall! Take these 1 " and her white arms and hands She stripped of rings and diamond bands, And tore from braids of long black hair The gems that gleamed like starlight there.
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