<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529110" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Battle of Moncontour</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, weep for Moncontour! Oh! weep for the hour, <br>When the children of darkness and evil had power, <br>When the horsemen of Valois triumphantly trod <br>On the bosoms that bled for their rights and their God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, weep for Moncontour! Oh! weep for the slain, <br>Who for faith and for freedom lay slaughtered in vain; <br>Oh, weep for the living, who linger to bear <br>The renegade's shame, or the exile's despair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One look, one last look, to our cots and our towers, <br>To the rows of our vines, and the beds of our flowers, <br>To the church where the bones of our fathers decayed, <br>Where we fondly had deemed that our own would be laid. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! we must leave thee, dear desolate home, <br>To the spearmen of Uri, the shavelings of Rome, <br>To the serpent of Florence, the vulture of Spain, <br>To the pride of Anjou, and the guile of Lorraine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Farewell to thy fountains, farewell to thy shades, <br>To the song of thy youths, and the dance of thy maids, <br>To the breath of thy gardens, the hum of thy bees, <br>And the long waving line of the blue Pyrenees. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Farewell, and for ever. The priest and the slave <br>May rule in the halls of the free and the brave. <br>Our hearths we abandon; our lands we resign; <br>But, Father, we kneel to no altar but thine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Babbington+Macaulay">Thomas Babbington Macaulay</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=529110" data-title="The Battle of Moncontour de Thomas Babbington Macaulay" data-description="Oh, weep for Moncontour! Oh! weep for the hour, When the children of darkness and evil had power, When the horsemen of Valois triumphantly trod On the bosoms that bled for their rights and their God. Oh, weep for Moncontour! Oh! weep for the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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