Und über Gletschern bist du festgebannt ; Ein Echo, das die Jagd im Morgengrau Vom Schlaf' aufscheucht, daß Berg und Wald und Au Und Höhle dröhnen, wo's unsichtbar stand. Sein Spiel verkündend. So urplößlich strahl', 3. Gefühle der Tiroler. „Das Land ist uns vertraut vom Ahngeschlecht: Wir müssen thun, was möglich, im Gefecht: Es laut empor. · So kling' in Sangesbraus Einstimmen Hirt unb Heerde in den Reihen! 4. Was nüßt, ach! langes sittenkluges Streiten, Das man aus „gut” und „böse” preßt mit Müh'; Was dummer Fleiß, zu höh’n die Energie Und zu transcendentaler Ruh' zu leiten, Daß jede Leidenschafft sich lasse reiten AND is it among rude untutored Dales, Is it by rocks and woods that man prevails? O'ER THE WIDE EARTH, ON MOUNTAIN AND ON PLAIN. 221 Of fiercely-breathing war. The truth was felt By Palafox, and many a brave compeer, Palafox-y-Melzi, Don Joseph (1780-1847), immortalized by his heroic defence of Saragossa in 1808-9. He was of an old Arragon family, and entered the Spanish army at an early age. In 1808, when twenty-nine years of age, he was appointed governor of Saragossa, by the people of the town, who were menaced by the French armies. He defended it with a few men, against immense odds, and compelled the French to abandon the siege, after sixty-one days attack, and the loss of thousands. Saragossa, however, was too important to lose, and Marshals Mortier and Moncy renewed the siege with a large army. Palafox (twice defeated outside) retired to the fortress as before, where the men, women, and children fought in defence, till the city was almost a heap of ruins. Typhus attacked the garrison within, while the French army assailed it from without. Palafox, smitten by the fever, had to give up the command to another, who signed a capitulation next day. He was sent a prisoner to Vincennes, and kept there for nearly five years, till the restoration of Ferdinand VII., when he was sent back on a secret mission to Madrid. In 1814 he was appointed Captain-General of Arragon; but for about thirty years-till his death in 1847-he took no part in public affairs.-ED. O'ER the wide earth, on mountain and on plain, A Godhead, like the universal PAN; Such doom awaits us. Nay, forbid it, Heaven! Even to the death :-else wherefore should the eye HAIL, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye Blood flowed before thy sight without remorse : See note to sonnet (p. 221). Saragossa surrendered February 20, 1809, after a heroic defence, which may recal the sieges of Numantia or Saguntum. Every street, almost every house, had been hotly contested; the monks, and even the women, had taken a conspicuous share in the defence; more than 40,000 bodies of both sexes and every age testified to the obstinate courage of the besieged. (See Dyer's History of Modern Europe, Vol. IV. p. 496.)-ED. * The beginning is imitated from an Italian sonnet. 1815. SAY, what is Honour ?-'Tis the finest sense And guard the way of life from all offence. BRAVE Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight From Prussia's timid region. Go and rest A meteor wert thou crossing a dark night: 2 |