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ELEGIAC POEMS.

‘For them no lofty pyramid doth rise,
Inscrib’d with rows of splendid words that flow;
The Queen’s-Court Manuscript their legend is[1],
Their monument the mountain Hostajnow.

‘Go now, and that, for which thy brethren here
Shed their best blood in battle, learn to love!
Go, learn that sacred mother to revere,
For whom in fight Bohemia’s Lion strove!’

  1. See p. xvii of the Introductory Essay.