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Now no more by wrongs or tyrant power oppressed. From a thousand woes, Ah ! sweet repose, Soon will seal these eyes m everlasting rest. Soon the martyr's grave will close.
" Death approaches near! the herald of eternal glory, Friends and comrades dear! Ye long shall mourn my hap-less story. Oh ! 'tis hard to part from all life's loving ties— Hark, the midnight bell I 'tis the soldier's knell: Soon to-morrow's sun, the last for me, shall rise; Glory, home, and friends, farewell." . . .
At the end of each verse the first two lines are repeated with the plaintive music, which was arranged by E. Flood.
By the way, the melody of " Pestal" was, in a measure, no doubt unconsciously, revived re-cently in that ridiculous rubbish called " Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay."
" The Gypsy Countess," with music by the once celebrated Stephen Glover, was founded on an incident not without a certain amount of romance. The kidnapping of children was a regular profession amongst the gipsies at one time, and many a parent lived to mourn the loss of a favourite child stolen away by these nomads and alien wanderers. The story upon which the " Gipsy Countess" was founded and utilized in Mrs. Crawford's lyric is as follows: A tradition
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