<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409704" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Emperor's Glove. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On St. Bavon's tower, commanding<br>Half of Flanders, his domain,<br>Charles the Emperor once was standing,<br>While beneath him on the landing<br>Stood Duke Alva and his train. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a print in books of fables,<br>Or a model made for show,<br>With its pointed roofs and gables,<br>Dormer windows, scrolls and labels,<br>Lay the city far below. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through its squares and streets and alleys<br>Poured the populace of Ghent;<br>As a routed army rallies,<br>Or as rivers run through valleys,<br>Hurrying to their homes they went </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Nest of Lutheran misbelievers!'<br>Cried Duke Alva as he gazed;<br>'Haunt of traitors and deceivers,<br>Stronghold of insurgent weavers,<br>Let it to the ground be razed!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the Emperor's cap the feather<br>Nods, as laughing he replies:<br>'How many skins of Spanish leather,<br>Think you, would, if stitched together,<br>Make a glove of such a size?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</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=409704" data-title="The Emperor's Glove. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth) de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="On St. Bavon's tower, commanding Half of Flanders, his domain, Charles the Emperor once was standing, While beneath him on the landing Stood Duke Alva and his train. Like a print in books of fables, Or a model made for show, With its pointed roo..."></div> </div> </div>

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