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Of the jewels and pearls which their persons adorn ! Yet those baubles by husband or lover were torn From the wives of wrttcl . es who vanquished have been ! Woe !—Woe !—The laud fur and wide
Alivadv is covered with wounded and dying—Of blood the whole plain is one crimson tide — The fury ' s redoubled , the shouting increased—Ah ! one rank is broken ! What liope , save in flying , Where vigour is lo ^ t , and discipline gone ? Despairing 10 conquer , they deem their task done—That instinct , llie love of their lives , has not ceased *
As clouds of light chaff , bv the wine ! blown awav From the winnow , are scatter ed and spread thro * the air , So the panic-struck ho ^ ts from the dreadful affray In headlong retreat rush over the plains . Hut fresh aud fierce troops from an ambush appear , The remains of the routed in haste to pursue—They hotly press on ; whilst the flying anew Hear the much dreaded horse as it fast on them gains .
Trembling they drop at the feet of their foes—Surrender their arms , and mercv intrear , The cries of the wounded , the dying man ' s woes , By victory ' s turbulent clamours are drowned . A courier takes horse—leaps into his seat — Receives a despatch—gallops out of the crowd — A lash and a spur—his steed tears up the roacl—And each village he passes is roused by the sound .
Wherefore do all on the public highway From their houses and fields so anxiously run ? And each to bis neighbour so eagerly say il What joyful news hears he ? " —Ye ask it in vain , Ye know whence lie ' s come , and whither he ' s gone- ; And hope ye that tidings of gladness he tells ? Hear the horrible tidings ! They speak of the yells Of brothers just murdered by brothers for gaiu !
Around me loud shouts of festivity rise ; Ev ' ry church is adorned ; and the chaunting within Of hymns and of praises ascends to the skies , Front homicide hearts—hearts that Heaven abhors . Meanwhile , from the crest of the Alps may be seen C » arin ** downward to view the remains of the fi < rht , The i-tranker , who reckons with " savage delight The numbeiH of brave men just slain in the wars .
llaste ! fill up your ranks by the last battle thinnMYo , ur triumphs , rejoicings , and ^ alas ( suspend—Let , your banner ** a ^ ain be unfurled o tlie wind , The foiei ^ n invader descends— heis beie ! lour forces now weaken'd , with weaiiness bend , "JTis Tor this he has come , when he knows you must yield ; And inarching his army to that very field AVIiere vour brethren have i > eri !* b * d , he w : iits for you tliere ! Land ! whose confines ' so iuiito'v were deemed That tliy children within lh « in in | v . uv would not live ,
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S 28 Specimen * of Italian Poeii .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1836, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2656/page/36/
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