<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472313" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Taking Of Quebec</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC, AND DEATH OF<br>GENERAL WOLFE</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>AMIDST the clamour of exulting joys,<br>Which triumph forces from the patriot heart,<br>Grief dares to mingle her soul-piercing voice,<br>And quells the raptures which from pleasures start.<br>O WOLFE! to thee a streaming flood of woe, <br>Sighing we pay, and think e'en conquest dear;<br>QUEBEC in vain shall teach our breast to glow,<br>Whilst thy sad fate extorts the heart-wrung tear.<br>Alive the foe thy dreadful vigour fled,<br>And saw thee fall with joy-pronouncing eyes: <br>Yet they shall know thou conquerest, though dead--<br>Since from thy tomb a thousand heroes rise!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Goldsmith">Oliver Goldsmith</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=472313" data-title="The Taking Of Quebec de Oliver Goldsmith" data-description="STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC, AND DEATH OF GENERAL WOLFE AMIDST the clamour of exulting joys, Which triumph forces from the patriot heart, Grief dares to mingle her soul-piercing voice, And quells the raptures which from pleasures start. O WO..."></div> </div> </div>

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