The Year of Wonders.
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87.
The dastard Crow that to the Wood made wing,
And sees the Groves no shelter can afford,
With her loud Kaws her Craven kind does bring,
Who, safe in numbers, cuff the noble Bird.
The dastard Crow that to the Wood made wing,
And sees the Groves no shelter can afford,
With her loud Kaws her Craven kind does bring,
Who, safe in numbers, cuff the noble Bird.
88.
Among the Dutch thus Albemarl did fare:
He could not conquer, and disdain'd to flie;
Past hope of safety, 'twas his latest care,
Like falling Cæsar, decently to die.
Among the Dutch thus Albemarl did fare:
He could not conquer, and disdain'd to flie;
Past hope of safety, 'twas his latest care,
Like falling Cæsar, decently to die.
89.
Yet Pity did his manly Spirit move
To see those perish who so well had fought:
And generously, with his despair he strove,
Resolv'd to live till he their safety wrought.
Yet Pity did his manly Spirit move
To see those perish who so well had fought:
And generously, with his despair he strove,
Resolv'd to live till he their safety wrought.
90.
Let other Muses write his prosp'rous fate,
Of conquer'd Nations tell, and Kings restored:
But mine shall sing of his eclips'd estate,
Which, like the Sun's, more wonders does afford.
Let other Muses write his prosp'rous fate,
Of conquer'd Nations tell, and Kings restored:
But mine shall sing of his eclips'd estate,
Which, like the Sun's, more wonders does afford.
91. He
