THE DESPATCH OF THE DOOM.

_("Pendant que dans l'auberge.")_

[Bk. IV. xiii., Jersey, November, 1852.]

While in the jolly tavern, the bandits gayly drink,

Upon the haunted highway, sharp hoof-beats loudly clink?

Yea; past scant-buried victims, hard-spurring sturdy steed,

A mute and grisly rider is trampling grass and weed,

And by the black-sealed warrant which in his grasp shines clear,

I known it is _the Future_--God's Justicer is here!

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