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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447566" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Alexander And Phillip</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE stood by the river's side<br>A conqueror and a king,<br>None match'd his step of pride<br>Amid the armed ring.<br>And a heavy echo rose from the ground,<br>As a thousand warriors gather'd round.<br>And the morning march had been long,<br>And the noontide sun was high,<br>And weariness bow'd down the strong,<br>And heat closed every eye;<br>And the victor stood by the river's brim<br>Whose coolness seem'd but made for him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cypress spread their gloom<br>Like a cloak from the noontide beam,<br>He flung back his dusty plume,<br>And plunged in the silver stream;<br>He plunged like the young steed, fierce and wild,<br>He was borne away like the feeble child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They took the king to his tent<br>From the river's fatal banks,<br>A cry of terror went<br>Like a storm through the Grecian ranks:<br>Was this the fruit of their glories won,<br>Was this the death for AMMON'S son?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many a leech heard the call,<br>But each one shrank away;<br>For heavy upon all<br>Was the weight of fear that day:<br>When a thought of treason, a word of death,<br>Was in each eye, and on each breath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But one with the royal youth<br>Had been from his earliest hour,<br>And he knew that his heart was truth,<br>And he knew that his hand was power;<br>He gave what hope his skill might give,<br>And bade him trust to his faith and live.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALEXANDER took the cup,<br>And from beneath his head a scroll,<br>He drank the liquor up,<br>And bade PHILLIP read the roll;<br>And PHILLIP look'd on the page, where shame,<br>Treason, and poison were named with his name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An angry flush rose on his brow,<br>And anger darken'd his eye,<br>What I have done I would do again now!<br>If you trust my fidelity.<br>The king watch'd his face, he felt he might dare<br>Trust the faith that was written there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next day the conqueror rose<br>From a greater conqueror free;<br>And again he stood amid those<br>Who had died his death to see:<br>He stood there proud of the lesson he gave<br>That faith and trust were made for the brave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Letitia+Elizabeth+Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a><div class=q>
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A conqueror and a king,
None match'd his step of pride
Amid the armed ring.
And a heavy echo rose from the ground,
As a thousand warriors gather'd round.
And the morning march had been long,
And the noontide sun was hi..."></div>
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