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The poetical works of William Lisle Bowles

... with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan
Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)

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VOL. I.
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VOL. II.
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BANWELL HILL;
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THE GRAVE OF THE LAST SAXON;
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ST JOHN IN PATMOS.
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THE SORROWS OF SWITZERLAND.
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THE VILLAGER'S VERSE-BOOK.
  
SONG OF THE CID.
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POEMS, INEDITED, UNPUBLISHED, ETC.

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THE SWAN.

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Look at the swan! how still he goes!
His neck and breast like silver gleam;
He seems majestic as he rows;
The glory of the lonely stream.

2

There is a glory in the war,
A glory when the warrior wears
(His visage marked with many a scar)
The laurel wet with human tears.

3

Such scenes no glory can impart,
With trumps, and drums, and noises rude,
Like that which fills his silent heart
Who walks with God in quietude.
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