Carol and Cadence New poems: MDCCCCII-MDCCCCVII: By John Payne |
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X. CLIVE.
England, to whom he gave the gorgeous EastOf Ind from Ganges to the Waters Five,
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How dealt'st thou with the founder of thy feast?
Alack! Thou sufferedst the blatant beast
Of calumny thy hero hound and drive
To a dishonoured sepulchre, alive,
And dead, well nigh to think of him hast ceased.
Such, such is heroes' fortune, so ill-starred
Their horoscope and such the abiding curse
That stains the shields of nations! In repine
They live and at their epicedial shrine
None kneels but some expiatory bard,
Who sets their names in his enbalming verse.
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