deathful-grinning

Updated: July 3, 2025

And the heart of a people beat with one desire; For the peace, that I deem'd no peace, is over and done, And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire.

David Christie Murray - VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea