A.
Wars harm all ranks, all arts, all crafts appal:
At Mars' harsh blast arch, rampart, altar fall!
Ah! hard as adamant, a braggart Czar
Arms vassal-swarms, and fans a fatal war!
Rampant at that bad call, a Vandal-band
Harass, and harm, and ransack Wallach-land!
A Tartar phalanx Balkan's scarp hath past,
And Allah's standard falls, alas! at last.
The Fall of Eve.