Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
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Chapter 12 No.12

All things great may life afford,

Praise, power, love, high pomp, fair gaud,

Till the banquet be toward

Hath this king. Then day takes flight,

Sinketh sun and fadeth light,

Late he coucheth-Night; 't is night.

The proud king heading the host on his red roan charger.

Dust. On a thicket of spears glares the Syrian sun,

The Sar

            
            

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