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Posted by MT on September 16, 19103 at 15:21:43:
In Reply to: Any Byron lovers out there? posted by Ophelia on March 19, 19101 at 22:13:38:
: The asarian came down,
: Like a wolf on the fold,
: And his cohorts were gleaming,
: In purple and gold,
: And the sheen on their spears,
: Were like stars on the sea,
: As the blue waves roll nightly,
: Through deep Galilee.
: Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath n,
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he ped:
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
And there lay the steed with his nostrils all wide,
But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride:
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.
And there lay the rider distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail;
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
The lances unlifted, the trumpet unn.
And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
: Anyone who can finnish the rest of this poem will thurouly impress me. Perhaps I am not the only renisannce lover out there?
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