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LOVE ME. "You do return me back on memory's path To dear remembered scenes. Old Scotland's scenes! It is a glorious land! I long to roam, Doubly a lover, 'mong its wildest charms…
THE OLD BRIGADIER. "I cannot deem why men so toil for fame, A porter is a porter, though his load Be the oceaned world, and although his road Be down the ages. What is in a name? Ah! &#…
THE RETREAT. "Lords and dukes and noble princes, On thy fatal banks were slain; Fatal banks that gave to slaughter All the pride and flower of Spain. Furious press the hostile squadrons…
FRESH DISASTERS. "Oh, plenteous England! comfort's dwelling-place Blest be thy well-fed, glossy, John-Bull face! Blest be the land of Aldermanic paunches, Rich turtle-soup, and glorious ve…
A SMILE OF FORTUNE. "But little; I am arm'd, and well prepared.— Give me your hand, Bassanio; fare-you-well! Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you; For herein Fortune shows herself m…
PIQUE. "These hands are brown with toil; that brow is scarred; Still must you sweat and swelter in the sun, And trudge with feet benumbed the winter snow, Nor intermission have until the end. T…
THE COMBAT OF LUGO. "New clamours and new clangours now arise, The sound of trumpets mixed with fighting cries, With frenzy seized, I run to meet th' alarms, Resolved on death, resolved to…
"Soft; I did but dream. O, coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight, Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What do I fear? Myself? the…
THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA. "Marked you yon moving mass, the dark array Of yon deep column wind its sullen way? Low o'er its barded brow, the plumed boast, Glittering and gay, of France's …
THE BURIAL. "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried, Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried.…
