For England Poems written during estrangement: By William Watson |
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VII
LAMENTATION
O early fall'n, uncrowned with envied laurel,
O lives that nameless come and noteless go,
Our vainly brave in an ignoble quarrel,
That fought unhating an unhating foe!
O lives that nameless come and noteless go,
Our vainly brave in an ignoble quarrel,
That fought unhating an unhating foe!
Ye pass, ye cease; in alien dust your dust is;
Carnage and tears depart not, wrath remains;
And Power derides the lips that counsel justice,
And nations wonder, and the world arraigns.
Carnage and tears depart not, wrath remains;
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And nations wonder, and the world arraigns.
And foresight of how long the end yet tarries
To no man born of woman hath He given,
Who marshals all His flashing legionaries
Nightly upon the silent field of heaven.
To no man born of woman hath He given,
Who marshals all His flashing legionaries
Nightly upon the silent field of heaven.
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