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Excerpt from St. Christopher and Other Poems
Other weak. Points which those conversant with the period will at once detect. The object has been not to load the pages with details, but to create interest in one or two important characters, and to bring out the old but never hackneyed moral, that not what a man does, but what he is, should be the criterion by which he must be judged. It is interesting to know that the Dauphin's remains were preserved intact during the Revolution, and that France has not profaned the ashes of one of whom even Madame de Pompadour was forced to say, Le Dauphin a le coeur bon c'est peut-etre le seul héritier qui verserait des larmes a la mort de son pere.' His devoted counsellor Du Muy, who had carried out the Dauphin's dying request, that he would be good to his children, by accepting office under Louis XVI., was buried at his old friend's feet in the Cathedral of Sens, with the inscription on his tomb, flucurque Judas mew.
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