Thomas Babbington Macaulay Dear Poems

• 1. The Battle Of Moncontour
  Oh, weep for Moncontour! Oh! weep for the hour,
  When the children of darkness and evil had power,
  When the horsemen of Valois triumphantly trod
  On the bosoms that bled for their rights and their God.
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• 2. Epitaph On Henry Martyn
  Here Martyn lies. In Manhood's early bloom
  The Christian Hero finds a Pagan tomb.
  Religion, sorrowing o'er her favourite son,
  Points to the glorious trophies that he won.
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• 3. Pompeii
  A Poem Which Obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July 1819.
  
  
  Oh! land to Memory and to Freedom dear,
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• 4. An Election Ballad
  As I sate down to breakfast in state,
  At my living of Tithing-cum-Boring,
  With Betty beside me to wait,
  Came a rap that almost beat the door in.
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• 5. Lines To The Memory Of Pitt
  Oh Britain! dear Isle, when the annals of story
  Shall tell of the deeds that thy children have done,
  When the strains of each poet shall sing of their glory,
  And the triumphs their skill and their valour have won.
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• 6. Song
  O STAY, Madonna! stay;
  'Tis not the dawn of day
  That marks the skies with yonder opal streak:
  The stars in silence shine;
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• 7. Epitaph On A Jacobite
  To my true king I offered free from stain
  Courage and faith; vain faith, and courage vain.
  For him, I threw lands, honours, wealth, away.
  And one dear hope, that was more prized than they.
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• 8. Sermon In A Churchyard
  Let pious Damon take his seat,
  With mincing step and languid smile,
  And scatter from his 'kerchief sweet,
  Sabaean odours o'er the aisle;
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