Nature
Written on the Steps at Hampden
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Nature
Along that avenue below,
With drooping neck, and footstep slow,
Came wounded Hampden's horse ; he stood
Steaming with sweat surcharged with blood.
Within that chamber overhead
Died the most mourn'd of all the dead.
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Written on the Steps at Hampden.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/252/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Written on the Steps at Hampden.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/252/.
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