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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    I /' , V % ' , ' / . ✓ fc * ■ >* it) . ■ / ' 1 • t • V u, I Exalt her -voice to praise each gallant son. Butcfaiefest thee, O godlike Wellington ! Strength of her strength thou bo w’d her rival’s knee; 4od all her glory emanates from thee* \ • 1 Nor can she fail brave Uxbridge-21 to descry. The plume of war, the soul of chivalry* NorPicTON thou, the British soldier’s friend. Untimely and yet glorious in thy end. But who can count the 'sands ?- e’en lie might name . i . ’The lengthen’d numbers of the sous of fame; Nor Vnongst her humbler sons shall Shaw e’er die, . * Immortal deeds defy mortality: Posterity shall read the glowing page 'That paints the glories of a former age. Then shall 'their bosoms bum with patriot fires, ' ■ ■ ■. _ v / - \nd if their country calls, they’ll emulate their sires. . L . .<:• - : : O gracious. God! that hears the suppliant’s pray Vs Who, turn’d from- wrath, the harden’d sinner spares.
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