The Visions of England
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_Till the terrible Day unreveal'd_; See _Appendix_ A.
SIDNEY AT ZUTPHEN October 2: 1586 1 Where Guelderland outspreads Her green wide water-meads Laced by the silver of the parted Rhine; Where round the horizon low The waving millsails go, And poplar avenues stretch their pillar'd line; That morn a clinging mist uncurl'dIts folds o'er South-Fen town, and blotted out the world.
2 There, as the gray dawn broke, Cloked by that ghost-white cloke, The fifty knights of England sat in steel; Each man ...all ear, for eye Could not his nearest spy; And in the mirk's dim hiding heart they feel, --Feel more than hear, --the signal soundOf tramp and hoof and wheel, and guns that bruise the ground.
3 --Sudden, the mist gathers up like a curtain, the theatre clear;Stage of unequal conflict, and triumph purchased too dear!Half our boot treasures of gallanthood there, with axe and with glaive, One against ten, --what of that?--We are ready for glory or grave!There, Spain and her thousands nearing, with lightning-tongued weapons ofwar;--Ebro's swarthy sons, and the bands from Epirus afar;Crescia, Gonzaga, del Vasto, --world-famous names of affright, Veterans of iron and blood, insatiate engines of fight:--But ours were Norris and Essex and Stanley and Willoughby grim, And the waning Dudley star, and the star that will never be dim, Star of Philip the peerless, --and now at height of his noon, Astrophel!--not for thyself but for England extinguish'd too soon!
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
_Till the terrible Day unreveal'd_; See _Appendix_ A.
SIDNEY AT ZUTPHEN October 2: 1586 1 Where Guelderland outspreads Her green wide water-meads Laced by the silver of the parted Rhine; Where round the horizon low The waving millsails go, And poplar avenues stretch their pillar'd line; That morn a clinging mist uncurl'dIts folds o'er South-Fen town, and blotted out the world.
2 There, as the gray dawn broke, Cloked by that ghost-white cloke, The fifty knights of England sat in steel; Each man ...all ear, for eye Could not his nearest spy; And in the mirk's dim hiding heart they feel, --Feel more than hear, --the signal soundOf tramp and hoof and wheel, and guns that bruise the ground.
3 --Sudden, the mist gathers up like a curtain, the theatre clear;Stage of unequal conflict, and triumph purchased too dear!Half our boot treasures of gallanthood there, with axe and with glaive, One against ten, --what of that?--We are ready for glory or grave!There, Spain and her thousands nearing, with lightning-tongued weapons ofwar;--Ebro's swarthy sons, and the bands from Epirus afar;Crescia, Gonzaga, del Vasto, --world-famous names of affright, Veterans of iron and blood, insatiate engines of fight:--But ours were Norris and Essex and Stanley and Willoughby grim, And the waning Dudley star, and the star that will never be dim, Star of Philip the peerless, --and now at height of his noon, Astrophel!--not for thyself but for England extinguish'd too soon!
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