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Updated: May 17, 2025
We were five thousand goodly men-at-arms, And scant five hundred had he in that hold; His rotten sandstone walls were wet with rain, And fell in lumps wherever a stone hit; Yet for three days about the barriers there The deadly glaives were gather'd, laid across, And push'd and pull'd; the fourth our engines came; But still amid the crash of falling walls, And roar of bombards, rattle of hard bolts, The steady bow-strings flash'd, and still stream'd out St.
Though the storm was now coming on in its fury, he slept like a babe in its cradle. Black Nell had ceased grazing, and stood by her sleeping master with ears erect, and her long mane and tail waving in the wind. It seem'd quite dark, so heavy were the clouds. The blast blew sweepingly, the lightning flash'd, and the rain fell in torrents.
"Descend, and touch, and enter; hear The wish too strong for words to name; That in this blindness of the frame My Ghost may feel that thine is near." The third poem is the crown of In Memoriam, expressing almost such things as are not given to man to utter: And all at once it seem'd at last The living soul was flash'd on mine,
To see so many books handsomely bound, and "flash'd about with golden letters," as he describes it, in so poor a place as Clare's cottage, gave it almost a romantic air, for, except in cleanliness, it is no whit superior to the habitations of the poorest of the peasantry. The hearth has no fire-place on it, which to one accustomed to coal fires looked comfortless, but Clare found it otherwise.
She is an Arab lady of some seventy or more years of age, but, like most ladies, does not know how old she is. At first sight of her, I "Gaz'd on her sun-burnt face with silent awe, Her tatter'd mantle, Her moving lips, "Whose dark eyes flash'd, through locks of blackest shade." The Pythoness asked me how I liked her country, a hundred times, and then begged for something in the name of Allah.
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