Of the Great King and all that company.”
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“Till morn’s gay star rose o’er the golden sea,
And sent to slumber all that company.”
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Now, such lines should never have passed the censorship of one who can give such other lines as these:
“Whose fierce eye o’er the margin of his shield
Had gazed from war’s first ridge on many a field.”
“Many a field” is weak, but the picture is very good. Strange to say, the two lines immediately following are these:
“Unblinking at the foe that on him glared,