THE BROWNIES IN SWITZERLAND.

And mark the narrow dungeon’s. bound

In which at last he moved around;

They paced it back and forth to find

To what a vault he was consigned,

And thought how well the poet’s pen

Has made his suffermgs known to men.

The narrow window they surveyed

To which the bird its visit paid,

As if to try with vocal
powers

To cheer him through the
gloomy hours.

With sympathetic feelings

 

kind,

Before they left the cell
behind,

They scrawled his name upon the wall,

His long imprisonment and all,

And passed a vote of censure strong

Upon the prince who did the wrong.

    
 

ae iy 7
f Mi oa
Stillother countries near at hand
Await the coming of the banc