THE BUGLER.

On board the man-of-war "Vermont"

At the navy-yard we lay;

The lights of the city shone through the night
That closed on the winter's day.

Silence reigned through the giant ship,

And the men in their hammocks reclined;
We heard no sound but the lapping waves
And the whistle of the wind.

Then, sweet and clear, from the darkened deck

I heard a bugle blow;

It pierced the night like a shaft of light
And sounded above and below.

'Twas as sweet and clear as midnight bells
O'er faint blue hills that chime;
It was like the remembered music
Of some half-forgotten rhyme.

Perhaps in the hammocks a tear-drop fell
On the cheek of some son of the sea,
As the bugle sang through the wintry night
"Nearer, My God, to Thee."

The friends who gathered on board that night
A year will have sundered far;

Some will sail 'neath the Southern Cross,

Some toward the Polar Star.

But often of home and our native land
We'll think when the lamp burns low,
And call the roll of our absent friends
When the bugles of memory blow.

U. S. S. "VERMONT," February 15, 1885.

(IRVING KING, in the New York Tribune of July 12, 1885.)

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VII. "Alas! for the Love that Lives Alway." Chapters I-III..
VIII. To, About, and Across Madagascar.

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I. The Most Efficient Battery for a Dispatch-Boat. By Lieutenant-Commander F. M. BARBER, U.S.N., of the Naval Advisory Board II. Recollections of the Third Day at Gettysburg. By WILLIAM MILLER OWEN, late Colonel Battalion Washington Artillery, New Orleans, La. . III. Major-General Gershom Mott, U.S.V., and the Third Corps, Army of the Potomac. By J. WATTS DE PEYSTER, Brevet Major-General S. N. Y. IV. Indian Wars in Texas. I. By JAMES T. DESHIELDS. V. The German Soldier in the Wars of the United States (concluded).

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IX. Preventable Foot Diseases in Military Animals. By M. J. TREACY, Veterinarian
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X. One of the Duanes. Chapters XVII., XVIII. By ALICE KING HAMILTON
XI. Jack Haultaut, Midshipman United States Navy; or, Life at the Naval Academy.
Chapter XIV. By Commander ALLAN D. BROWN, U.S.N.

XII. THE MONTH'S NEWS-SUMMARY OF THE WORLD'S EVENTS
XIII. EDITORIAL NOTES.-General Ulysses S. Grant-Grant's Letter on his Waning
Life-Rear-Admiral Bedford Pim, R.N.-General Order 85.
XIV. BOOK REVIEWS.-" Around the World with General Grant;" "The Journals of
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