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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119360" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Ballad of a Drum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Austrians at Arcola<br>(The fight had lasted long),<br>The Austrians at Arcola—<br>Some fifty thousand strong—<br>Assailed the bridge whereto the French<br>(A fourth their strength) had come,.[1]<br>With menace dire, and murderous fire;<br>Then fled before a drum!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Estienne at Arcola—<br>Heroic little lad!—<br>Seeing the carnage on the bridge,<br>With soul grown sick and sad,<br>Had sworn that he, at least, would pass<br>Beyond the sanguine tide,<br>And beat his drum, whate'er should come,<br>Upon the farther side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Estienne at Arcola—<br>No fear had he to die!—<br>With one brave Sergeant, swam the stream,<br>His precious drum held high,<br>And from the river dripping rose<br>Amid the battle's hum,<br>A French refrain, with might and main,<br>To pound upon his drum.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Austrians at Arcola<br>Seemed fifty thousand strong,<br>But many were the raw recruits<br>Among that mighty throng,<br>Who hearing Frenchmen in the rear,<br>Listened, confused and dumb,<br>Then gave a shout,—"We 're hemmed about!"<br>And fled—before a drum!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The courage shown at Arcola<br>By André Estienne—<br>The lesson taught at Arcola<br>Is wholesome now as then.<br>Needs there a moral to the tale?<br>Then read in this its sum:<br>The greatest strength may yield at length,<br>When sounds a hero's drum!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Mine and Thine</i><div class=q>
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