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forts were overpowered by the impulse to mingle in more active pursuits, and to visit the home of his ancestors.

" Go, then my son, and still the wild throbbings of thy heart over the silent beds of those who wake no more till the resurrection morn; yet think not that I have read thy nature slightly, or with a careless glance. The spirit of a warrior slumbers there. Thou dost long to mix in the battle. I have marked, in thy musing, the lightning of thine eye shoot forth, as if thou hadst forgotten him who said: 'Vengeance is mine.' Would that thou hadst loved peace. Go; yet remember, that 'he who taketh the sword shall perish by the sword.' As for me, my path on earth is short, or I should