<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=533848" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>After The Battle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">MY father, hero of benignant mien,<br>On horseback visited the gory scene,<br>After the battle as the evening fell,<br>And took with him a trooper loved right well,<br>Because of bravery and presence bold.<br>The field was covered with the dead, all cold,<br>And shades of night were deepening : came a sound,<br>Feeble and hoarse, from something on the ground ;<br>It was a Spaniard of the vanquished force,<br>Who dragged himself with pain beside their course.<br>Wounded and bleeding, livid and half dead,<br>'Give me to drink - in pity, drink!' he said.<br>My father, touched, stretched to his follower now<br>A flask of rum that from his saddle-bow<br>Hung down : 'The poor soul - give him drink,' said he<br>But while the trooper prompt, obediently<br>Stooped towards the other, he of Moorish race<br>Pointed a pistol at my father's face,<br>And with a savage oath the trigger drew :<br>The hat flew off, a bullet passing through.<br>As swerved his charger in a backward stride,<br>'Give him to drink the same,' my father cried.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+Hugo">Victor Hugo</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=533848" data-title="After The Battle de Victor Hugo" data-description="MY father, hero of benignant mien, On horseback visited the gory scene, After the battle as the evening fell, And took with him a trooper loved right well, Because of bravery and presence bold. The field was covered with the dead, all cold, And sh..."></div> </div> </div>

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