“As Keenan fought with his men side by side,
So they rode ’till there were no more to ride,
But over them lying-there, shattered and mute
What deep echo rolls? ’Tis a death salute
From the cannon in place; for heroes ye braved
Your fate not in vain; the army was saved.”
Keenan’s Charge (1881).
Keene (Abel), a village schoolmaster, afterwards a merchant’s clerk. Being led astray, he lost his place and hanged himself.—Crabbe, Borough, xxi. (1810).
Keepers, of Piers Plowman’s visions, the Malvern Hills. Piers Plowman (W. or R. Langland, 1362) supposes himself fallen asleep on the Malvern Hills, and in his dream he sees various visions of an allegorical character pass before him. These “visions” he put into poetry, the whole containing 15,000 verses, divided into twenty parts, each part being called a passus or separate vision.
Keepers of Piers Plowman’s vision, thro’ the sunshine and the snow.