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First Line: By art's bold privilege warrior and warhorse stand
Last Line: Conqueror, 'mid some sad thoughts, divinely blest!
Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846); Waterloo; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852); Battle Of Waterloo; Wellington, Duke Of


BY Art's bold privilege Warrior and War-horse stand
On ground yet strewn with their last battle's wreck;
Let the Steed glory while his Master's hand
Lies fixed for ages on his conscious neck;
But by the Chieftain's look, though at his side
Hangs that day's treasured sword, how firm a check
Is given to triumph and all human pride!
Yon trophied Mound shrinks to a shadowy speck
In his calm presence! Him the mighty deed
Elates not, brought far nearer the grave's rest,
As shows that time-worn face, for he such seed
Has sown as yields, we trust, the fruit of fame
In Heaven; hence no one blushes for thy name,
Conqueror, 'mid some sad thoughts, divinely blest!







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