SORROWS. Through the autumn pleasaunce, giants bright from hell Passed the poet, sighing: "'Tis not ours to quell Hearts that wake divinely, after dreaming well. "While the phosphor-blossoms kiss the barren wave, While the lark with music showers a yawning grave How should man be loveless, or in all a slave? 66 'We the ancient Sorrows break before his No! Come that breath of godhead hot upon us, lo, Charred and puny powers, like a leaf we go." THE WILD RIDE. I hear in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses, Cowards and laggards fall back; but alert to the saddle, Straight, grim, and abreast, vault our weather-worn, galloping legion, With stirrup-cup each to the one gracious woman that loves him. The road is through dolor and dread, over crags and morasses; There are shapes by the way, there are things to en tice us: What odds? We are knights, and our souls are bent on the riding. Thought's self is a vanishing wing, and joy is a cobweb, And friendship a flower in the dust, and her pitiful beauty! We hurry with never a word in the track of our fathers. I hear in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses, We spur to a land of no name, outracing the storm-wind; We leap to the infinite dark, like the sparks from the anvil. Thou leadest, O God! All's well with thy Troopers that follow! UIZOT, FRANÇOIS PIERRE GUILLAUME, a French statesman, orator, and historian; born at Nîmes, October 4, 1787; died at Val Richer, Normandy, October 12, 1874. He belonged to an honorable Huguenot family of Nîmes. His father, a distinguished lawyer, perished by the guillotine in 1794. Madame Guizot then went with her sons to Geneva, where they were educated in the gymnasium. After completing the academic course with distinction, Guizot went to Paris in 1805, studied Kant and German literature, and reviewed the classics. He soon began to write for Le Publiciste, and entered upon an active literary life. A work on French synonyms (1809), an essay on the fine arts in France (1811), and a translation, with notes, of Gibbon's Decline and Fall (1812), led to his appointment in the latter year to the chair of Modern History in the University of France. On the fall of Napoleon, in 1814, he became Secretary-General of the Ministry of the Interior, but resigned his office upon the return of Napoleon from Elba; and, convinced that the res toration of the Bourbons to power would be the means of establishing a constitutional monarchy in France, he sought an interview with Louis XVIII. at Ghent, to impress upon the King that the stability of the Bourbons upon the throne depended upon their upholding the liberties of France, and religiously observing the charter. On the second restoration he became Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice; in 1816, Master of Requests; in 1817, a Councillor of State, and in 1819, Director of Communal and Departmental Administration. He was regarded as the mouthpiece of the "doctrinaires," a party who advocated the preservation of the constitution by sustaining equally the rights of the people and of the throne. The moderation of the doctrinaires rendered them unpopular. In 1821 Guizot was deprived of all his offices, and in 1825 was forbidden even to lecture. Between 1820 and 1822 he had published Du Gouvernement de la France depuis la Restauration et du Ministère Actuel and L'Histoire des Origines du Gouvernement Representatif, containing his lectures at the University. He now applied himself to literature. He was one of the collaborators in the publication of the Mémoires Relatifs à l'Histoire de France depuis la Fondation de la Monarchie jusqu'au XIIIme Siècle, and of the Mémoires Relatifs à l'Histoire de la Revolution d'Angleterre. He edited a translation of Shakespeare, the Encyclopédie Progressive, and the Revue Française, and published a History of the English Revolution (1826). In 1827 he resumed his lectures in history, and during the next three years published, under the collective title of Course of Modern History, a General History of Civilization in Europe, and a History |