<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391587" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Captive Knight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The prisoned thrush may brook the cage,<br>The captive eagle dies for rage. <br>Lady of the Lake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Twas a trumpet's pealing sound!<br>And the knight look'd down from the Paynim's tower,<br>And a Christian host, in its pride and power,<br>Thro' the pass beneath him wound.<br>Cease awhile, clarion! Clarion, wild and shrill,<br>Cease! let them hear the captive's voice–be still! <br>'I knew 'twas a trumpet's note!<br>And I see my brethren's lances gleam,<br>And their pennons wave by the mountain stream,<br>And their plumes to the glad wind float!<br>Cease awhile, clarion! Clarion, wild and shrill,<br>Cease! let them hear the captive's voice–be still! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I am here, with my heavy chain!<br>And I look on a torrent sweeping by,<br>And an eagle rushing to the sky,<br>And a host, to its battle-plain!<br>Cease awhile, clarion! Clarion, wild and shrill,<br>Cease! let them hear the captive's voice–be still! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Must I pine in my fetters here?<br>With the wild wave's foam, and the free bird's flight,<br>And the tall spears glancing on my sight,<br>And the trumpet in mine ear?<br>Cease awhile, clarion! Clarion, wild and shrill,<br>Cease! let them hear the captive's voice–be still! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'They are gone! they have all pass'd by!<br>They in whose wars I had borne my part,<br>They that I lov'd with a brother's heart, <br>They have left me here to die!<br>Sound again, clarion! Clarion, pour thy blast!<br>Sound! for the captive's dream of hope is past.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Felicia+Dorothea+Hemans">Felicia Dorothea Hemans</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391587" data-title="The Captive Knight de Felicia Dorothea Hemans" data-description="The prisoned thrush may brook the cage, The captive eagle dies for rage. Lady of the Lake. 'Twas a trumpet's pealing sound! And the knight look'd down from the Paynim's tower, And a Christian host, in its pride and power, Thro' the pass beneath..."></div> </div> </div>

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