"Then let him come as gory War, With life-wounds deep and red, Or let him strike as fell Disease With racking pains instead-- Still in these spirits he shall find A power that shall defy All woe and pain that can but make The mortal body die. So, brethren, leave this carrion here-- Nay, choke not with thy gall!-- And through our camp a note of cheer Let every bugle call! We'll tear yon crescent from its tower Ere stars are out to-night: And let Death come--we'll heed him not!-- So forward! to the fight!" A groan of rage upon his lips, Almanzor hid his head Beneath his mantle's ample fold, And soon was with the dead. But, roused by those intrepid words, To death-defying zeal, The chieftains armed as if they longed To hear the clash of steel. The trumpets sounded merrily, While, dazzlingly arrayed, On Alphuara's walls they rushed, And low the crescent laid! And of the gallant, gallant hearts, Who thus grim Death defied, 'Mid pestilence and carnage, none Of plague or battle died! [Footnote 4: From THE STANDARD SPEAKER; containing exercises in prose and poetry, for declamation in schools, academies, lyceums, and colleges. Newly translated or compiled from the most celebrated orators, ancient and modern. By EPES SARGENT. In press by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., Philadelphia.] A TASTE OF FRENCH DUNGEONS. AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF MRS. RADCLIFFE. Toward the middle of the year 1795, a short time after the deplorable affair of Quiberon, an English lady was taken prisoner just as she was entering France by the Swiss frontier. Her knowledge of French was limited to a few mispronounced words. An interpreter was soon found, and upon his interrogating her as to her motives for attempting so perilous an enterprise without passport, she replied that she had exposed herself to all these dangers for the purpose of visiting the château where the barbarous Sieur de Fayel had made Gabrielle de Vergy eat the heart of her lover. Such a declaration appeared so ridiculous to those who heard it that they were compelled to doubt either the sanity or the veracity of the strange being who ventured upon it. They chose to do the latter, and forwarded the stranger to Paris, with a strong escort, as an English spy. Upon her arrival there, she was safely deposited in the Conciergerie.