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Show 462 TilE LlLT AND TilE TOTEM. to render himself to the Portuguese prince, be fell ill at Tours, where be died, uniTcrsnlly regretted, and with the reputation of being one of the most valiant and able captains of the dayequally capable as a commander of an army and a fleet. \Ve cannot qualify our praise of this remarkable man by giving heed to the moral doubfB which would seck to impair the glory, not only of the most remarkable event of bis life, but of the century in which he li,·ed. We owe it to his memory to write upon his monument, that his crimes, if his warfare upon the Spaniards aball be so considered, were committed in the cause of humanity! Our chronicle is ended. The expedition of Dominique de Gonrgucs concludes the hil!tory of the colonies of France in the forests of the FloridiaD. APPENDIX . ORIGINALLY, it was the design of the Autl10r, to write a religious narrati\•e poem on the subject of tho preceding history. The following sections, however, were all that were written. I. THE VOICE. A midnight voice from Heaven! It smote his ear, That stern old Christian warrior, who had stood, Fearless, with front erect and spirit high, Between his trembling flock and tyranny, Worse than Egyptian! It awakened him To other thoughts than combat. "Dost thou see;"Thus ran the utterance of that voice from Heaven," The sorrows of thy people? Dost thou hear Their groans, that mingle with tho old man's prayer, And the child's prattle, and the mother's hymn? Vain help thy cannon brings them, and tho sword, Unprofitably drunk with martyr blood, ]-laintaius the Cl1ristian argument no more. Arouse thee for new labors. Gird thy loins For toils and perils better overcome |
