The Siege of Corinth

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B. Cormon and Blanc, 1835 - 30 pages
 

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Page 140 - As it slipp'd through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast.
Page 134 - Tis midnight: on the mountains brown The cold, round moon shines deeply down; Blue roll the waters, blue the sky Spreads like an ocean hung on high, Bespangled with those isles of light, So wildly, spiritually bright; Who ever gazed upon them shining And turn'd to earth without repining, Nor wish'd for wings to flee away, And mix with their eternal ray?
Page 134 - The banners droop'd along their Staves, And, as they fell around them furling, Above them shone the crescent curling; And that deep silence was unbroke, Save where the watch his signal spoke, Save where the Steed...
Page 141 - Out upon Time ! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time ! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve O'er that which hath been, and o'er that which must be : What we have seen, our sons shall see ; Remnants of things that have pass'd away, Fragments of stone, rear'd by creatures of clay...
Page 129 - Have left untouched her hoary rock, The keystone of a land, which still, Though fall'n, looks proudly on that hill, The landmark to the double tide That purpling rolls on either side, As if their waters chafed to meet, Yet pause and crouch beneath her feet.
Page 139 - Tis still a watchword to the earth : When man would do a deed of worth He points to Greece, and turns to tread, So...
Page 140 - There is something of pride in the perilous hour, Whate'er be the shape in which death may lower; For Fame is there to say who bleeds, And Honour's eye on daring deeds...
Page 141 - O'er the weltering field of the tombless dead, And see worms of the earth and fowls of the air, Beasts of the forest, all gathering there ; All regarding man as their prey, All rejoicing at his decay, XVIII.
Page 138 - They fell devoted, but undying , The very gale their names seemed sighing : The waters murmured of their name ; The woods were peopled with their fame ; The silent pillar , lone and gray...
Page 141 - Fashioned by long forgotten hands ; Two or three columns, and many a stone, Marble and granite, with grass o'ergrown ! Out upon Time ! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before...

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