Myth and Romance - Being a Book of Verses by Madison Julius Cawein
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page 50 of 119 (42%)
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On wreck and death without a name ...
And then again the vision changed: Where flows the Guadalete, see, The warriors of the Cross are ranged Against the Crescent's chivalry. With roar of trumpets and of drums They meet; and in the battle's van He fights; and, towering towards him, comes Florinda's father, Julian; And one-eyed Taric, great in war: And where these couch their burning spears, The Christian phalanx, near and far, Goes down like corn before the shears. The Moslem wins: the Christian flies: "Allah il Allah," hill and plain Reverberate: the rocking skies, "Allah il Allah," shout again. And then he dreamed the swing of swords And hurl of arrows were no more; But, louder than the howling hordes, Strange silence fell on field and shore. And through the night, it seemed, he fled, Upon a white steed like a star, Across a field of endless dead, |
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