And as freely we, Revering ever her sacred call, Could lay our lives downthough life be Thrice loved and precious to the sense Of such as reap the recompense Of life imperiled for just cause Imperiled, and yet preserved; While comrades, whom Duty as strongly nerved, Whose wives were all as dear, lie low.

The interests, the honor, the duty, the peace, and the prosperity of the people of all sections are equally involved and imperiled in this question.

Another object, and one which struggles for precedence, is to give an inside history of the hospitals during the war of the Rebellion, that the American people may not forget the cost of that Government so often imperiled through their indifference.

In The Winter's Tale, and in Cymbeline, the happiness and existence of two princely households, lost through long years, and imperiled to the death by the folly and obstinacy of the husbands, are redeemed at last by the queenly patience and wisdom of the wives.