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SONNET
WRITTEN IN HOLWOOD PARK, FORMERLY THE SEAT OF THE
RIGHT HON. WILLIAM PITT,
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SONNET WRITTEN IN HOLWOOD PARK, FORMERLY THE SEAT OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM PITT,
Friday, August 8, 1851.
His was the conflict, yet not his to shareThe victory, so late and hardly won,
When over Europe rose the righteous sun
Of Law and Freedom—mid the World's despair
Match'd in unequal warfare, hard to bear
Singly amid the faithless, and undone
The allotted task to leave, ere yet was run
His long career of glory closed in care.
Oh! had he lived, till that dark night forlorn
Had fled—and with it to return no more,
With foul disordered rout, and ensigns torn,
The baffled foe was seen—the cannons' roar
Gave the glad sound, to distant Ebro borne
From Tagus and the Lusitanian shore.
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