The battle of Waterloo. A poem / [John Haskins].

  • Haskins, John
Date:
1816
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The battle of Waterloo. A poem / [John Haskins]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In front the Danube rolls his treacherous wave, Here instant death awaits the least delay, There more remote they urge their fated way, Then desperate plunge in Ister’s watery bed,J1 And swell the mighty volume with their dead. But if the fall of Louis from the height Of unjust pow’r obtain’d ’gainst lawful right. And rage of battles swelling on the ear, (Of that campaign that curb’d his mad career) W as deem'd a theme whose brilliant lustre shone loo splendid for the muse of Addison ! 12 How shall a muse obscure, unknown to fame, Unskill’d to kindle up the sacred flame, Untrain’d her note and unessay’d her wing, With hardy daring raise her voice to sing Of him, Napoleon ?—to whose sceptred might, I And headlong fall from empire’s giddy height,
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