Historical & Legendary Ballads & Songs By Walter Thornbury. Illustrated by J. Whistler, F. Walker, John Tenniel, J. D. Watson, W. Small, F. Sandys, G. J. Pinwell, T. Morten, M. J. Lawless, and many others |
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Deep under mountains of dead, gashed, and smitten, and trampled,The heralds searching the field, counting the banners and scutcheons,
Found the corpse of the son pierced with arrows and lances;
Above him the old man lay, the old blind King of Bohemia,
One arm round the neck of the youth and one on a gash in his forehead.
The Black Prince pausing to watch the heralds seeking the banners,
Bent, and plucking the crest, the three white plumes of the ostrich,
Placed them, spotted with blood, in the battered peak of his helmet.
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