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"The prostrate South to the destroyer yields
Her boasted titles and her golden fields;
With grim delight the brood of winter view
A brighter day and skies of azure hue;
Scent the new fragrance of the opening rose,
And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows."

See Gray's _Poems_, published by Mr. Mason, p. 197.




HUNS INVADE THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE

ATTILA DICTATES A TREATY OF PEACE

A.D. 441

EDWARD GIBBON


Beyond the Great Wall of China, erected to secure the empire from
their encroachments, were numerous tribes of troublesome Hiongnou
who, becoming united under one head, were successful in an invasion
of that country. These confederated tribes became known as the
Huns. Until the advent of M. Deguignes all was dark concerning
them. That learned and laborious scholar conceived the idea that