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 AN HISTORICAL TALE.

(FROM THE ANNALS OF LITHUANIA AND PRUSSIA.)

"Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni da combattere . . . . bisogna essere volpe e leone.", Il Principe.

years have passed since first the Order Waded in blood of Northern heathenesse; The Prussian now had bent his neck to chains, Or, yielding up his heritage, removed With life alone. The German followed after, Tracking the fugitive; he captive made And murdered unto Litwa's farthest bound.

Niemen divideth Litwa from the foe; On one side gleam the sanctuary fanes, And forests murmur, dwellings of the gods.