The Belfry of Burgess.
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n the market. place ol Burgess stands the Bel>

 fry oiu and bruwr,

 Thrtce consumed and .hric re .builded, still it

 WatChrs uer tne town; ..,. As the >umtuer morn vas breaking on that

 lofty lower stood,

 And the world threw off he darkness, like the

 weeds oi wid"whood. Thick with towns and hamlets studded, and

 with streams and vapors gray, Like shield embossed with silver, round and

 vast the landscape lay. Al tny feel the cny sumbered. From its chim- . nels here and There -... Nrea:hs ot snow-whIte smoke ascended, van

 ished ghost-like into air. , Not sound rose from the city at that early

 morning hour.

 But fearr heart ofiron beating in that an.

 cicn! tower, , -.. . rom he'r nests beneath its rafte sang the

 swallows wild and high, And he world .neaih me sleeping seemed

 more distant than the sky. The most musical and solemn, bringing back . the oldeu tunes With their strange, unearthly changes, rang

 the melancholy chimes, Like the psalms from some old clorster, when

 tse nuns sing In the chCir, And the great bell toIed among them, like the

 chanting of iriar. Visions of the days departed, shadewy phant-

 oms filled my brain! They who live in history only seemed to walk

 the earth again

 All the Foresters oi Flanders, mighty Cald-

 win Rras>de-F Fer, Lyderick du Eucq. and Crecy, Philip, Guy de

 Dampierre! beheld the pageants splendid. that adorned

 those datso old, .... Stately danes. like queens attended. knights

 who bore the Fleece of Gold, aa Lombard and Venetian merchants with deep

 laden argosies, Ministers from twenty naiions-more than

 royal pornp and casa. beheld proud Maximilian. kneeling hufhbly

 on the gn und: "a @~.. beheld the gentle Mary, hunting with her

 hawk and hound;

 And her lighted bridal chamber, where duke

 slept wiikthe queen, And the armed guard around them, and 8

 sword uusheathed between. beheld ibe Flemish weavers, with the brave

 Count of Namurs, Marching home 10 Ghent and Burges, from th.

 Battle of the Spurs; Saw the fight at Minnewater, saw the White

 Hoods moving west. Saw great AIleveldl, victorious, scale the Col.

 den Dragons nest. ...- ... And again the whisker'd Spaniard altthe land

 with terror smOie, ,ss.s vs.as.., And again the wild alarm soundsd from the

 tuscin's threat, et# Till the bell of Ghent responded, OCT lagoon s and dike uf sand, -r xtta. 4Rs I am Roland am Roland there is victogy

 in the land!'t Then the sonnd of drums arous'd me. The

 swaAen'd ciiy's roar Chased the phantoms had summoned back in-

 iothair grave once more. Hours had passed away like minutes aid be-

 tore VI as aware,

 Lo, the shadyw of the Belfry crossed the sun. illumined square ~ z ~The Golden Dragon. taken from the Church of Si. Sophia in Constaniinuple in one of the Crusades, and placed on the Belfry of Burgess. was afterwards trans port ed io Ghent by Phill- ip v4n Atievalde. and still adOrns the Belffy efihat city.

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