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The German-French Campaign, 1870-1871. These two pieces, written during the suspense of a great nation's agony, aim at expressing human sympathy, not political bias.
All her corn-fields rippled in the sunshine, / All her lovely vines, sweets-laden, bowed; / Yet some weeks to harvest and to vintage: / When, as one man's hand, a cloud / Rose and spread, and, blackening, burst asunder / In rain and fire and thunder.