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Dr Reid a traveller through the highlands of Peru is said to have found in the desert of Alcoama the dried remains of an assemblage of human beings five or six hundred in number men women and children seated in a semicircle as when alive staring into the burning waste before them It would seem that knowing the Spanish invaders were at hand they had come hither with a fixed intention to die They sat immoveable in that dreary desert dried like mummies by the hot air still sitting as if in solemn council while over that Areopagus silence broods everlastingly	A
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With dull and lurid skies above	B
And burning wastes around	C
A lonely traveller journeyed on	D
Through solitudes profound	C
No wandering bird's adventurous wing	E
Paused o'er that cheerless waste	F
No tree across those dreary sands	G
A welcome shadow cast	H
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With scorching pestilential breath	I
The desert blast swept by	J
And with a fierce relentless glare	K
The sun looked from on high	J
Yet onward still though worn with toil	A
The eager wand'rer pressed	L
While hope lit up his dauntless eye	J
And nerved his fainting breast	L
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Why paused he in his onward course	M
Why held his shuddering breath	I
Why gazed he with bewildered eye	J
As on the face of death	I
Before him sat in stern array	N
All hushed as if in dread	O
Yet still and passionless and calm	P
A concourse of the dead	O
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Across the burning waste they stared	Q
With glazed and stony eye	J
As if strange fear had fixed erewhile	A
Their gaze on vacancy	R
And woe and dread on every brow	S
In changeless lines were wrought	T
Sad traces of the anguish deep	U
That filled their latest thought	T
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They seemed a race of other time	V
O'er whom the desert's blast	H
For many a long and weary age	W
In fiery wrath had passed	H
Till scathed and dry each wasted form	X
Its rigid aspect wore	Y
Unchanged though centuries had passed	H
The lonely desert o'er	Z
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Was it the clash of foreign arms	A2
Was it the invader's tread	O
From which this simple minded race	B2
In wildest terror fled	O
Choosing amid the desert sands	G
Scorched by the desert's breath	I
Rather than by the invaders' steel	A
To meet the stroke of death	I
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And there they died a free born race	B2
From their proud hills away	N
While round them in its lonely pride	C2
The far free desert lay	N
And there unburied still they sit	D2
All statute like and cold	E2
Free e'en in death though o'er their homes	F2
Oppression's tide has rolled	E2

Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)

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