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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Songs from ‘The Princess’, IV

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)

THY voice is heard thro’ rolling drums,

That beat to battle where he stands;

Thy face across his fancy comes,

And gives the battle to his hands:

A moment, while the trumpets blow,

He sees his brood about thy knee;

The next, like fire he meets the foe,

And strikes him dead for thine and thee.