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Barbarians by Robert W. Chambers
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Title: Barbarians
Author: Robert W. Chambers
Release Date: May 27, 2008 [Ebook #25623]
Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BARBARIANS***
[Illustration: Stent lost the fight, fell outward, wider, dropping back into mid-air.]
BARBARIANS
By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
AUTHOR OF
"The Dark Star," "The Girl Philippa," "Who Goes There," Etc.
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With Frontispiece
By A. I. KELLER
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A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with D. APPLETON & COMPANY
TO LYLE and MADELEINE MAHAN
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"Daughter of Light, the bestial wrath
Of Barbary besets thy path!
The Hun is beating his painted drum;
His war horns blare! The Hun is come!"
"Father, I feel his foetid breath:
The thick air reeks with the stench of death;
My will is Thine. Thy will be done
On Turk and Bulgar, Czech and Hun!"
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She understands.
Where the dead headland flare
Mocks sea and sand;
Where death-lights shed their glare
On No-Man's-Land.
France takes her stand