The Stately Homes of England,
How beautiful they stand!
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
O’er all the pleasant land;
The deer across their greensward bound
Through shade and sunny gleam,
And the swan glides past them with the sound
Of...
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LEAVES have their time to fall, Day is for mortal care, |
What hid’st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells? |
The Breaking waves dashed high And the heavy night hung dark |
The Warrior bowed his crested head, and tamed his heart of fire, “... |
[Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son of the Admiral of the Orient, remained at his post (in the Battle of the Nile) after the ship had taken fire and all the guns had been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder.] ... |