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Excerpt from Four Years in Paraguay, Vol. 2 of 2: Comprising an Account of That Republic, Under the Government of the Dictator Francia
Poor Hero He died died of starvation and I dare not tell you of the sorrow and indignation with which the event filled me. He came to his sad end from the bar barous neglect of the captain of a ship to whose care he had for a few days been intrusted.
I cannot help here quoting part of the epitaph in scribed by Lord Byron on the monument erected by him to the memory of his dog Boatswain. I was forcibly struck, on first reading it, by the vivid expression of the feeling of the poet. With the vituperations poured upon man I had nothing to do; but in his tribute to the dog, which Hero's death led me again to peruse, I sincerely sympathized.
When some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of we, And storied urns record who rests below.
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