Poems Lyrical and Dramatic (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Poems Lyrical and Dramatic A Gentleman of Somerset (In the old Burying-ground at Calcutta) In this dark, weed-grown wilderness, Where lie the dead of yesterday, There sleeps a warrior Englishman - A servant of "John Company" - Who, ere his reckless countrymen Snatched from the reeking tiger jaws The fateful prize of empiry, Laid down his life, and saw no more His home in leafy Somerset. Though one of that stern fellowship - That unremembered chivalry - Whose onset shook the sovereignties And world-old Powers of Hindostan, Yet oft in marchings to and fro His heart, grown sad unwittingly, Had whispered of the Severn Sea; And in the moon-blanched minarets Had shown, by wistful alchemy, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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