The pleasures of hope, with other poems / By Thomas Campbell.

  • Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844
Date:
1812
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Credit: The pleasures of hope, with other poems / By Thomas Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The sun went down, nor ceas’d the carnage there,, Tumultuous murder shook the midnight air—- On Prague’s proud arch the fires of ruin glow, His blood-dy’d waters murm’ring far below; The storm prevails, the rampart yields a way, Bursts the wild cry of horror and dismay! Hark ! as the smouldering piles with thunder falL A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy call 1 Earth shook—-red meteors flash’d along the sky, And conscious Nature shudder’d at the cry ! Oh! righteous Heaven ! ere Freedom found a grave, Why slept the sword, omnipotent to save ? Where was thine arm, O Vengeance! where thy rod, That smote the foes of Zion and of God,