The Last David, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Last David, and Other Poems Warder (alone). Weary am I, and heartsick. Night and day Rolls on the din of battle, and the air Is thick with cries of slaughter at the walls, And death-groans in the streets, where the blue famine Strikes down our people hourly, and plague runs Through thin ranks of defenders, as a flash Of lightning rending loftiest cedars down. And worse than all, that bane of all our hope, Unceasing faction surging to and fro, Whereon our ship of state is shattered, till Her rent sides gape on ruin. If but he That guides her now, were hearted like his sire, Not tossed in tempest, but on calmer waters And in a harbouring quiet, would we ride, Fenced from disaster by the shadowing wing Of the great eastern eagle. Never yet Have we seen peaceful seasons, prosperous days: About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.