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The armies met on Marston Moor	A
'Midst lightning's flash and thunder's roar	B
As murky clouds sweep o'er the sky	C
God's cannonade with man's will vie	C
The Royalists in phalanx strong	D
By fiery Rupert led along	D
From Bolton's cruel massacre	E
Towards York in hope to keep it free	F
From the Roundheads at any cost	G
If York be lost my crown is lost	H
Wrote Charles to this trusted chief	I
And he must bring it prompt relief	I
The foe's true strength he did not know	J
But dazzled much by victory's glow	J
He hoped with ease to overthrow	J
The untrained volunteers	K
Nor did he for brave Cromwell care	L
Tho' he had asked is Cromwell there	L
Would not his grenadiers	K
Scatter those yeomen to their fields	K
To hold their ploughs instead of shields	K
Thus confident of great success	K
He asked his chaplain now to bless	K
From God's own word their going out	M
And seemed to hear the victor's shout	M
While from the ranks of Roundheads rose	K
Triumphant hymns ere came the blows	K
Now Rupert madly dashes out	M
God and the King his battle shout	M
Charges the parliamentary ranks	K
In centre heedless of the flanks	K
Defeats Lord Fairfax and Leven	N
Scatters like leaves their untrained men	O
Remorselessly he hewed them down	P
And chased their leaders far from town	P
But Cromwell kept his men restrained	Q
Till Rupert thought the victory gained	Q
His eye was all ablaze with fire	E
And burned his soul with righteous ire	R
Then sharp and passionate came the cry	C
Charge in the name of the Most High	C
His features now most clearly show	J
A strange enthusiastic glow	J
With zeal he wraps himself about	M
And fires men's hearts with glance and shout	M
For God and king is Rupert's cry	C
For truth and peace we dare to die	C
Shouts Cromwell all the lines along	D
Which holds as with a mighty thong	D
Th' immortal hosts of Puritans	K
While on them fall the Royal bans	K
As Roundheads Rupert them derides	K
Not Roundheads now but Ironsides	K
The heavens were black the storm still raged	S
As tho' with earth a war it waged	S
But raged a fiercer war just then	O
Not forces blind but men with men	O
For two score thousand men were there	L
And booming cannon rent the air	L
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The Cavaliers were scattered wide	T
Brought to the dust their haughty pride	T
Across the beanfield Rupert fled	U
His standard gone his garments red	U
His men by many hundreds turned	V
To ask for mercy nor were spurned	V
While he left all and to York sped	U
Heedless of stores or Royal dead	U
To Cromwell's swords as stubble they	W
And Truth and Peace had gained the day	W

Joseph Horatio Chant

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