As round her fell her long fair hair;

And she looked to heaven with that frenzied air,

Which seemed to ask if a God were there!

And, stretched by the wall of a ruined hut,

With its hollow cheeks, and eyes half shut,

A child of famine dying:

And the carnage begun, when resistance is done,

And the fall of the vainly flying!

Lord Byron.

FROM “ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS”