No! the free and brave

Will scorn to yield-my country's flag shall wave A-round the patriot's grave! Thwarted shalt thou be, For I shall rise above thee in eternity, Im-mor-tal life thou giv'st to me.

The martyrdom of Col Pestal by the Russian Government, has been rendered immortal by the equisite melody he scratched on the wall of his dungeon, with a link of his chain, on the night previous to his execution. The poet has attempted to portray the emotions by which the unfortunate atriot was actuated, in his last hours when he composed this beautiful melody