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GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 641 Lorsque blanchi de bave et la langue tiree Ne bougeant plus dans ses liens II meurt et que la trompe sonne la curee toute la meute des chiens Toute la meute alors comme une vague immense Bondit alors chaque matin Hurle en signe de joie et prepare d'avance Ses larges crocs pour le festin Et puis vient la cohue et les abois feroces Roulent de vallons en vallons Chiens courants et limiers et dogues et molosses Tout s'elance et tout crie allons Quand le sanglier tombe et roule sur l'arene Allons allons les chiens sont rois Le cadavre est nous payons-nous notre peine Nos coups de dents et nos abois Allons nous n'avons plus de valet qui nous fouaille Et qui se pende notre cou Du sang chaud de la chair allons faisons ripaille Et gorgeons-nous tout notre soul II Translate into French When one sees how the scattered communities of the great religious emigration of France became dissolved one may regret that leader did not at the first present himself suf- ficiently illustrious by birth and great in authority to rally all these exiles under one banner Realizing the idea of Coligny he might have led them to America and there have founded vast colony He would have found himself at once possessed of all the elements of society numerous energetic and full of hope generals soldiers sailors preachers learned men manufacturers artizans labourers merchants and even capitalists would have been there to facilitate their first establishment What more was wanted to transplant Protestant France into the New World there to flourish and perhaps to lay the foundation of powerful empire But Providence ordered it otherwise These fugitives dispersed throughout the world were to become unknown to