The Powers of Europe and Fall of Sebastopol by A British officer

Author:A British officer [officer, A British]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781355561118
Google: pzP4jwEACAAJ
Publisher: Creative Media Partners, LLC
Published: 2016-05-05T00:46:00+00:00

“Did you not hear it? No! ’twas but the wind,

Or the car rattling o’er the stony street;

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined!

No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet,

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet!

But hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more,—

As if the clouds its echo would repeat,—

And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before.

Arm! arm! it is, it is the cannon’s opening roar!

“Ah! then, and there was hurrying to and fro,

And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress,

And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago,

Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness.

And there were sudden partings, such as press

The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs,

Which ne’er might be repeated;—who could guess

If evermore should meet those mutual eyes,

Since upon night so sweet such awful morn could rise!”

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