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" Then go, and round that gallant head, 



Like banners in the airj 

 Shall float full many a daring hope 



And many a tender prayer. 



4< Should Freedom perish at thy death 



'Twere madness to repine : 

 And I a Mother's feeling lose 



Except the wish for mine. 



4< But if the destiny of Spain 



Be once again to rise ; 

 O ! grant me, heaven! to read the^tale 

 In Manuel's joyful eyes." 



S. F. 

 Madrid, 1835. 



THE THIEVES AND THE ASS 



(Translated from the French.) 



Two thieves, who stole an ass, a fighting fell, 



Whether to keep the " animal " or sell. 



While blows went trotting brisk from pate to pate, 



To know who should decide the creature's fate : 



Another thief arriv'd, got on his back, 



And gallop'd off with "Master Jack." 



The ass is sometimes but a spot of ground ; 

 The thieves are such a prince and such : 

 Instead of two, I three have found, 

 As Turkish, German, and the Russian clutch. 

 Such goods in contest now are common sights : 

 Yet oft the victors can't their conquest guard : 

 A fourth thief comes, and sets them all to rights, 

 And gallops off : the ass for his reward. 



Cambridge. 





