Her motive will
be the despicable safety of her shores from Gallic invasion. For this
she sacrifices her prestige in the world--her hereditary policy--the
time-honored traditions of the Anglo-Saxon. The world hereafter is free
to the Frenchman, for robbery, spoliation, conquest, and invasion,
wherever else than in England he chooses to prosecute the vocation of
national crime. England is no longer the foe of French ambition or
rapacity. So long as France will abstain from the invasion of the
'inviolate isle,' where for almost a thousand years no foreign enemy has
placed his foot, so long she may be free from molestation from England,
whatever else she may attempt; and this is the inglorious policy of
England in the year of our Lord 1862-'3.
TEMPTATION.
[A literal translation of this remarkable prose-poem was kindly
placed in our hands by Prof. Podbielski. It is allegorical
throughout, every phase of its marvellous symbolism resting upon
dire and tragic truth.
The many times murdered Mother is of course Poland. We hope that
the publication of this prophetic vision of her great son, patriot,
poet, statesman, and sage, as he undoubtedly was, may excite a
vivid interest at the present hour, when that heroic but unhappy
country is again struggling for life and freedom.
In its present English form, 'Temptation' is reverently dedicated
to the patriot sons of the Mother of heroes, by MARTHA W.
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