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Show I I 258 ON FREEDOM. Or kindly lulled to sympathetic glow, T... amcnt the martyr.:; of some f..tr-oJY woe, And tender grown, with sorrow hugely great, W C•'P o\::r an Ag is' or J ugurtba.'s fate ! -x View him, yc boHow h cartlings as he stalks '!'he dnunt](S3 monarch of his native walks Breathes the warm odor which the girgir bcars,t _tir;• l'vid..tl~ ag-nims!.lirc d('mOJ'alizalion of Wal', Cl'l'll upon the most :tb;;tracrcd allll dcva ted naLu res.-\ritlc L~"llas of J/())/l/l.olou <md L.1s (,'a.,cs. *" W~·•·p o\'t' wr A~i-~' or· Jugudhr1's f.Ll<'.'' A ){i~. Kirtg of L :rt·O;'dertl<>ll arrd ,.,, l lt·n~ uc of Le<>llida~. w:rs ll yorrlh of :siu:,:ular· f'Ul'ily ;oud promi11e. Aimiug l 11 corTect tlrt· abu~e11 wlri,·h !tad Ct'<'PL into the ::if'at·t:m p<~li ty, Ire iut r·oduct•d r·r·w'lh'l'atil't' 1:11\''l, Atnon~ olho·ra, Olh' f,,J· the t·qu dizcttiou ••f J)r•• tll'rty, :tud a~ an example (of t!isiukr,·stt·d liheral ity, ~loa t'l'tllti ~ t'Sitl:<' with l11t• c"mm1mity. l 'll:tp j11Ct·i,lt•·d U_1 tl•e tlcg-<•lll'!'lltc.l ::i••nate howc\'t'l', he wa• d··p••sc I, :111d, with !tiS wh.,Je f:1mily, litl':m;lcJ by o:·det· vf the in.;mt~J ::it.1tc.- ];',/iu. "-'11£',1/C • It is ~aid lh,tt when Jugu• tha was led bc·fore the ear of the con( J IINCI., IH· hst !ti~ ilt'!ISC'"'. Afll·t· tile tt·iun1ph Itt! wns tl1rown into pri,.on, wltl'I'C, whil:;t t!u·y \l' l'!'C in hasll' to stdp him, somt• tore !tis roln·!! .,ff his batk, and ()thct•:•, C:ll<•hiu~ eag••J·ly at lti<l pCtHlant~, pullt·d otl' tht· tips of h1"' cars wtth tlt"tll. Wheu he w,L-1 Ihnat d 1Wll n tked i11t.n tlo(' dnu.jPOU, all wild :wd c •nfusc·l, he s.d I, with a frantic ~-;uti le, "ll o·ai'Cns! !J,,w col,! is t his loath••f _rr~u r·s!'' Thet·e str· u:,!;.:-liu ~ f,,r ~<i:t duys with ,_f arvati<~n, :md to tl•e la~t hour lah"ring- fuJ' the pn·scrvn.liou uf l1is life, h<J carne tu lri~ l'n.l.- Pl1tl. Ctti. Jf.,r. t " Brea the!! t.he Wal"m odor which the girgir beat·s." Tho girgi1·, or· the g('s/tc el aub>!, n ~pecics of f1owe1·iug grnss. Piercing, fm;;1·ant, and grnteful in its o lor, it OJ1Cl'atcs not unlike a mild stimula nt, when t<!spireJ fu1· any length of time, 11 nd is fouud chiefly ucar· the boz·JuJ'iJ of :Jmall streams and ill the vicinnge of the 'l'nssaJa.- Lgn. Gui. and Soud. ON FltEED01l. Shouts the fierce music of his sn.vage airs, Or mailly brave in hottest chase puroucs 'rhe tawny monster of the desert dews; Eager, erect, persistent as the storm, Soul in his mien, God1s image in h is form! Y c:.::, view him thus, from ICaffir to So1Hlan, And tell me, worldlings, is the black a man? Sec, the full sun emerging from the deep, Climbs with Ted eye, the light-illumineil steep, And brighil" beautiful continuous smiles A fecund blessing on those Indian I sles ! L ike eastern woods which sweeten as they burn, So, the paTched eaTths to odorous Dowrcts tuTn, 259 And feathered faycs their murmurous wings expand, '\Vakeel by the magic of his conjuror's wancl, Flash their red plumes, and vocalize each dell ·where browse the lccho anil the clun·gazclle;' • " Where browse the f eclw nnd tlw dun-gazelle." A mo:~ g the will nnlmals :1.re proJig ious numbct·s of the Ynri~ olot·Nl spc,·i,•s of tho ({:L:~d!e, t he b olnu· Sl1.33:t., fccho, nuJ mndoqua. They n1 c cx:..t·cmcly ttnnwrous in the )WOI·iuces depopulntctl b!J 1wr aml ~~,ftwf'r!J, eujoyiu;; the wild o:tl3 of the deserted ham let~ without. fonr of molc:>tation from o. returning population.-.Note& on Central ~4Jrica. |