A Time for Everything 



Thus was ushered in the fateful 

 dawn of Waterloo, and gayly the 

 revelers rode to battle through dim 

 forest paths. 



"And Ardennes waves above them her green 



leaves 



Dewy with Nature's tear-drops as they pass, 

 Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, 

 O'er the unreturning brave. Alas! 

 E'er evening to be trodden like the grass 

 Which now beneath them, but above shall 



grow 

 In its next verdure." 



The Germans fought with the Eng- 

 lish against Napoleon that day, and, 

 a little more than a century later, the 

 allied French and British watched 

 helplessly the Prussians occupy the 

 abandoned palace of the Belgian king. 

 Such are the mockeries of human 

 history; such the crimes committed 

 in the name of civilization and Chris- 

 tianity; such is man's boasted super- 

 iority over the herds and flocks grazing 

 ever and forever in calm content upon 

 a thousand hills! 



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