In Peace 



" Those glorious days of September 



Saw many aristocrats fall ; 

 'Twas then that our pikes drank the blood 

 In the beautiful breast of Lamballe. 



" Pardi, 'twas a beautiful lady, 



I seldom have looked on her like ; 

 And I drummed for a gallant procession 

 That marched with her head on a pike." 



Then they showed her pale face to the 

 Queen, who fell fainting ; and the mob 

 called for her head and the head of the 

 King. And the slaughter went on 

 until the man on horseback came, and 

 the mob, "alive but most reluctant," 

 was itself forced into the graves it had 

 dug for others. 



And since that day the " best that 

 the nation could bring " have been with- 

 out descendants, the men less manly 

 than the sons of the Girondins would 

 have been, the women less beautiful 

 than the daughters of Lamballe. The 

 political changes which arose may have 



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