For England Poems written during estrangement: By William Watson |
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XVI
FOR ENGLAND
Of all great deaths on English ground, thine most,
Simon de Montfort, doth my spirit stir.
Thou fought'st for England and didst die for her,
Thyself of other race, from outland coast.
Law's mandatory and Freedom's, thou thy host
Didst hurl against a sceptred law-breaker;
Nor didst thou blench when, black from plume to spur,
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Then for their lives thou bad'st thy noblest fly:
“Thou dying we would not live,” they made reply,
And dauntless round thy dauntlessness were mown;
And thou with wrath that hewed its way on high
Fell'st fighting the steep fight of Liberty,
In a crashing forest of the foe, alone.
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