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BY smoke-encumbered field and tangled lane, Down roads whose dust was laid with scarlet dew, Past guns dismounted, ragged heaps of slain, Dark moving files, and bright blades glancing through, All day the waves of battle swept the plain Up to the ramparts, where they broke and cast Thy young life quivering down, like foam before the blast.
Then sank the tumult. Like an angel’s wing, |