maiden and wife. In his breaat, hia own heart is broken.

4. The halt, the blind, are amid the train. Sturdy pa^k-horaea laboriously drag the tented wagons wherein lie the aick athirst with fever.

5. The panting mules are urged forward with spur and goad ; atuffed are the heavy aaddle- bags with the wreckage of mined horaea.

6. Hark to the tinkling ailver beUa that adorn the tenderly-can'ied aUken bc rolls.

7. In tlie fierce noon^lare a lad bears a kin- dled lamp ; behind its net-work of bronze the lUTB of heaven breathe not upon its faint purple star.

8. Noble and abject, learned and simple, illas- trions and obficure, plod side by side, all brothers now, all merged in one routed army of misfor- tune

9. Woe to the straggler who falls by die way- side ! no friend shall cloae his eyes.

10. They leave behind, the grape, the olive, and the fig; the vines they planted, the com they sowed, the garden-cities of Andalusia and Aragon, Estremadura and La Itlancba, of Gra- nada and Caatile ; the altar, the hearth, and the grave of their fathers.

11. The townanian spits at their garments, the shepherd quits hia flock, the peasant hia plow, to pelt with curses and stones ; the villager seta on their trail his yelping cur.