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ON ANDREW HOFFER.
No marble epitaph, no sculptured stone,No monumental pillar needest thou;
When Egypt's pyramids to Time shall bow,
Thy name will as a household word be known!
Thy sword was garlanded with olive wreath,
First in the field, and latest to depart;
Untamed and independent, throbb'd beneath
Thy peasant garments an heroic heart.
When palace homes were girt by magic charm,
And life was stagnant as a frozen lake,
Thine was the soul which Thraldom could not shake,
That bared for holy strife thy country's arm.
While shines the daily sun, and rolls the sea,
Heroic Hoffer! men must honour thee!
For an account of the Tyrolese invasion, and a minute character of Hoffer, and of his scarcely less illustrious compeer, Joseph Speckbacher, see Geschichte Andreas Hoffer. 8vo. Leipsig, 1817.
Amid the somewhat dry and official details of modern history, the defence of the Tyrol, by the native peasantry, forms an episode of almost romantic interest.
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