<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396982" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Clay’s Defeat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis the hope of the noble defeated; <br>The aim of the marksman is vain; <br>The wish of destruction completed, <br>The soldier eternally slain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When winter succeeds to the summer, <br>The bird is too chilly to sing; <br>No music is play'd for the drummer, <br>No carol is heard on the wing. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The court of a nation forsaken, <br>An edifice stripp'd of its dome, <br>Its fame from her pinnacle shaken, <br>Like the sigh heaving downfall of Rome. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fall'n, fall'n is the chief of the witty, <br>The prince of republican power; <br>The star-crown of Washington City <br>Descends his political tower. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gold-plated seat is bespoken, <br>The brave of the west is before; <br>The bowl at the fountain is broken, <br>The music of fame is no more. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No longer a wonderful story <br>Is told for the brave whig to hear, <br>Whose sun leaves his circuit of glory, <br>Or sinks from the light of his sphere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Moses+Horton">George Moses Horton</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=396982" data-title="Clay’s Defeat de George Moses Horton" data-description="'Tis the hope of the noble defeated; The aim of the marksman is vain; The wish of destruction completed, The soldier eternally slain. When winter succeeds to the summer, The bird is too chilly to sing; No music is play'd for the drummer, N..."></div> </div> </div>

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