The instant that he fell.

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Where was ever such a picture of a battle in actual engagement?

‘Then marked they, dashing broad and far,

The broken billows of the war,

And plumed crests of chieftains brave,

Floating like foam upon the wave;

But nought distinct they see:

Wide raged the battle on the plain;

Spears shook, and falchions flashed amain;

Fell England’s arrow-flight like rain;