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... above , Go , read it in an hour ! The Indian's shaft , the Briton's ball , The sabre's thirsting edge , The hot shell , shattering in its fall , The bayonet's rending wedge , — Here scattered death ; yet , seek the spot , 6 EARLIER POEMS.
... above , Go , read it in an hour ! The Indian's shaft , the Briton's ball , The sabre's thirsting edge , The hot shell , shattering in its fall , The bayonet's rending wedge , — Here scattered death ; yet , seek the spot , 6 EARLIER POEMS.
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... fall May lift your floating curls , To sweep the simple lines that tell An exile's date and doom ; And sigh , for where his daughters dwell , They wreathe the stranger's tomb . And one amid these shades was born , Beneath this THE ...
... fall May lift your floating curls , To sweep the simple lines that tell An exile's date and doom ; And sigh , for where his daughters dwell , They wreathe the stranger's tomb . And one amid these shades was born , Beneath this THE ...
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... falls , but knows not why . Gaze not upon his shield of jet , The shaft upon the string is set ; Look not beneath his azure veil , Though every limb were cased in mail . Well , both might make a martyr break The chain that bound him to ...
... falls , but knows not why . Gaze not upon his shield of jet , The shaft upon the string is set ; Look not beneath his azure veil , Though every limb were cased in mail . Well , both might make a martyr break The chain that bound him to ...
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Page 2 - The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 1 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.