Identifier: worldsstoryhisto11tapp (find matches)
Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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k with a mocking, bUnding glare; To barter such princely splendor.For wrecked ambition and stark despair, Betrayal and base surrender! 524 THE LAST MOMENTS OF MAXIMILIAN THE LAST MOMENTS OF MAXIMILIAN BY JEAN PAUL LAURENS (France. 1838) Early in the morning of the day set for the execution, apriest came to the emperor to give him the last sacraments,and mass was celebrated. At six the officer came for him.The emperor said, I am ready. His servants wept andkissed his hands. Be calm, he said; you see I am so. Itis the will of God that I should die, and we cannot actagainst that. The emperor and the two generals who wereto die with him were then carried through the crowdedstreets to the place of execution. On taking their positions,the emperor moved aside for General Miramon to stand inthe middle, saying, A brave soldier must be honored by hismonarch even in his last hour, therefore permit me to giveyou the place of honor. The fatal shots were fired, and theEmperor MaximiUan was no more.
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MAXIMILIAN AT QUERETARO Wild, infinite taunting memories thrill His soul to its molten center;Remorses that madden him clamor still, But he will not let them enter.The groveling traffic of time all done, He would have the temple lonely,Its sanctuaries emptied one by one, That God may fill it only. But under the Austrian skies afar, Aglow with a hght elysian,The mulhoned windows of Miramar Loom out on his tortured vision:He looks on its gray abeles again; He is threading its pleached alleys;He is guiding his darlings slackened rein, As they scour the dimpled valleys. He can gaze his last on the earth and sky, — Step forth to his doom, nor shiver, —Eternity front his steadfast eye. And never a muscle quiver:But loves heart-rackings, despairs, and tears Wrench the fixed lips asunder;My poor Carlotta! — Now, grenadiers, Your volley may belch its thunder! THE RULE OF PORFIRIO DIAZ (1877-1910) BY CHANNING ARNOLD AND FREDERICK J. TABOR FROST Until 1876, when upon his distracted country

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