<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529536" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jezreel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On Its Seizure By The English Under Allenby, September 1918</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did they catch as it were in a Vision at shut of the day-<br>When their cavalry smote through the ancient Esdraelon Plain,<br>And they crossed where the Tishbite stood forth in his enemy's way-<br>His gaunt mournful Shade as he bade the King haste off amain?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On war-men at this end of time-even on Englishmen's eyes-<br>Who slay with their arms of new might in that long-ago place,<br>Flashed he who drove furiously? . . . Ah, did the phantom arise<br>Of that queen, of that proud Tyrian woman who painted her face?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faintly marked they the words 'Throw her down!' rise from Night<br>eerily,<br>Spectre-spots of the blood of her body on some rotten wall?<br>And the thin note of pity that came: 'A King's daughter is she,'<br>As they passed where she trodden was once by the chargers' footfall?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could such be the hauntings of men of to-day, at the cease<br>Of pursuit, at the dusk-hour, ere slumber their senses could seal?<br>Enghosted seers, kings-one on horseback who asked 'Is it peace?'…<br>Yea, strange things and spectral may men have beheld in Jezreel!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">September 24, 1918.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hardy">Thomas Hardy</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=529536" data-title="Jezreel de Thomas Hardy" data-description="On Its Seizure By The English Under Allenby, September 1918 Did they catch as it were in a Vision at shut of the day- When their cavalry smote through the ancient Esdraelon Plain, And they crossed where the Tishbite stood forth in his enemy's way..."></div> </div> </div>

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