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The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton

with an essay on the Rowley poems by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat and a memoir by Edward Bell

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69

C.

[Hur.]
The soldiers followed with a mighty cry,
Cries that might well the stoutest hearts affray.
Swift as their ships, the vanquished Dacians fly;
Swift as the rain upon an April day,
Pressing behind, the English soldiers slay;
But half the tenths of Danish men remain.
Ælla commands they should the slaughter stay,
But bind them prisoners on the bloody plain.
The fighting being done, I came away,
In other fields to fight a more unequal fray.