<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538543" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Cenotaph,</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, hadst thou fall'n, brave youth! on that proud day,<br>When our victorious fleet o'er the red surge<br>Rolled in terrific glory, thou hadst fall'n<br>Most honoured; and Remembrance, while she thought<br>Upon thy gallant end, had dried her tear!<br>Now far beyond the huge Atlantic wave<br>Thy bones decay; the withering pestilence,<br>That swept the islands of the western world,<br>Smote thee, untimely drooping to the tomb!<br>But 'tis enough; whate'er a soldier's fate,<br>That firm he hied him, where stern honour bade;<br>Though with unequal strength, he sunk and died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Lisle+Bowles">William Lisle Bowles</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=538543" data-title="A Cenotaph, de William Lisle Bowles" data-description="Oh, hadst thou fall'n, brave youth! on that proud day, When our victorious fleet o'er the red surge Rolled in terrific glory, thou hadst fall'n Most honoured; and Remembrance, while she thought Upon thy gallant end, had dried her tear! Now far bey..."></div> </div> </div>

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