Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
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NELSON'S COLUMN IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE
BEFORE IT WAS FINISHED. |
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NELSON'S COLUMN IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE BEFORE IT WAS FINISHED.
“In a deep vision's intellectual scene,”What time ghosts cock-crow dread and “laying” sun,
Ere Day hath o'er the Africk Night yet won
His win-lose game; and Silence shy, between
Rare footfall and clock-strike, her solemn mien
Resumes, I passed that column not yet done;
Like ill-told tale, that halts still 'twixt begun
And ended, bétwixt “To-be” and “Has-been!”
I started! By the base a figure sate,
In veiled dejection; awed, I paused and stood.
Then came a low, grand voice disconsolate,
Fateful, and such as doth grave haps prelude:
“Lo I, Britannia, pondering here on Fate,
Warn this my people 'gainst ingratitude!”
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