A. H. Laidlaw

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A. H. Laidlaw Fight Poems

  • 1.
    "By the splendor of God!" was a characteristic oath of William the Conqueror.


    By the splendor of God! We come! We come!
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  • 2.
    Inscribed to Dennis F. Burke, last Commander of the Irish Brigade, at Gettysburg.


    THE SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH.
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  • 3.
    Ever to be
    Land of the free,
    Hold up your banner of light to the eye,
    High! High!
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  • 4.
    With a sullen, setting Sun,
    It will come!
    With the days of Despots done,
    It will come!
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  • 5.
    See, the field of battle gleams
    Yonward past the tented streams,
    There the foe is camping;
    By the thirst-assuaging rill,
    ...
  • 6.
    Foiled on the field with his dead boys around him,
    All waiting for Earth to recover her own,
    Fortune hath missed him, but Glory hath found him,
    While fighting a thousand fierce foemen alone.
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Total 6 Fight Poems by A. H. Laidlaw

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