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Mix k the lion thus laid lou ; 'Tu.is no I. M man's arm that felled him;

'Twas liis own that dealt the blow His, who, pillowed on thy bosom

Turned aside from glory's ray Ilis. \\ho, drunk with thy caresses.

Madly threw a world away.

Should the base plebeian rabble

Dare assail my fame in Rome, Where my noble spouse, Octavia,

Weeps within her widowed home. Seek her ! Say the gods have told me

Altars, augurs, circling wings That her blood, with mine commingled.

Yet shall mount the throne of kings.

As for thee, star-eyed Egyptian!

Glorious sorceress of the Nile! Light the path to Stygian horrors

With the splendor of thy smile. Give to Caesar crown and arches,

Let his brow the laurel twine; I can scorn the Senate's triumphs,

Triumphing in love like thine.

1 am dying, Egypt, dying!

Hark ! the insulting foeman's cry; They are coming ! yuick, my falchion!

Let me front them ere I die. Ah ! no more amid the battle

Shall my heart exulting swell; I sis and Orsiris guard thee

Cleopatra Rome farewell.

W. H. LVTLK.

GENERAL W. H. LYTLE.

William H. Lytle was born in Cincinnati, O., November 2, 1826. [is great-grandfather, William, fought in the French war. His

indfather, of the same name, was an early pioneer in Ohio, and


 * tive in Indian warfare. His father, Robert T. Lytle, was a mem-

jr of Congress, 1833-' 35, and afterwards surveyor of public lands.

The subject of this sketch graduated at Cincinnati College, studied

iw, began the practice, but at the beginning of our war with Mexico

le volunteered, and served as captain in the Second Ohio Regiment.