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¡EXCELSIOR! 
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POR. ENRIQUE WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; (*)' 
Traducido del inglés 
POR EL SEÑOR DON M ANUEL MARÍA PÓLIT, 
Caledrál, co de Lengua y Literatura Francesa. 
Tela la noche sombras esparcía 
Cuando un joven cruzó un villaje alpino; 
, 
Llevando una bandera que decia:, 
¡Excélsior! : 
Y su mirada, llena de coraje, 
se . 2penas aclarad 
| Se alzaban como espectros a ealés sea. > 
: —Y arrancó de su pecho hondo gemido 
¡Excélsio 1% 
(*) EXCELSIOR! 
; The sii of men were se fast, “Oh! stay,” the maiden said, Pr rest 
As thr Ata, h-an Alpin illage ed, Thy weary head upon this brea 
A you o bore, LE now A 1ce,: A. tear stood.in his bright blue pa 
A ad lb this e A Me But still he answered with a a siglo 
Exc Excelsi 
His brow was sad; his eye beneath Beware epi a : Adi branch; 
Flashed like a faui chion Si its sheath; | *“Beware the awful a 
And, as a silver clarion, This was the pa last Cocdenight 
The edita ye pal eno id ó A voice replied, far up ho the da 
Exc 
ppy homes he saw the ' light At br reak of day, as heaven-ward 
oe 101d fires gleam warm and bright; | The pious monks of Saint= peras 
Above, the spectr > glaciers shone, Uttered the oft- crepeated pr 
And from his hps ds á groan voice cried through the said air: 
: a 0 elsi 
“Try not the eri ” the old man said; A Atila Py the en Pito 
“Dark lowers the tempest ov Pee Se Half buri the snow ce 
“The roaring cenas t is deep and wide,” | Still da fn h Ed ia 
And loud that clarion voice replica: That banner with sy strange, device: 
Loxcels Fixcelsio 
There is the twilight e ho grey; 
Lifeless, E bea qna: he a 
And from ARS ne pe far 
A voice lar like a cli» star: 
Exc 
( ne De intento hemos hecho uso de la pla revados propia de América; pues 
nos parece que, en castellano, no hay otra que s.m el como ¡esta lo mismo 
sas significa, en Francés s yen his, la palabra a nde. 
