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254. Caledonia: A Ballad

...rror their cry,
 They’d conquer’d and ruin’d a world beside;
She took to her hills, and her arrows let fly,
 The daring invaders they fled or they died.


The Cameleon-Savage disturb’d her repose,
 With tumult, disquiet, rebellion, and strife;
Provok’d beyond bearing, at last she arose,
 And robb’d him at once of his hopes and his life:
The Anglian lion, the terror of France,
 Oft prowling, ensanguin’d the Tweed’s silver flood;
But, taught by the bright Caledonian lance,
 He ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


American Feuillage

...West, with strong native persons—the increasing density there—the
 habitans,
 friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders; 
All sights, South, North, East—all deeds, promiscuously done at all times, 
All characters, movements, growths—a few noticed, myriads unnoticed, 
Through Mannahatta’s streets I walking, these things gathering;
On interior rivers, by night, in the glare of pine knots, steamboats wooding up; 
Sunlight by day on the valley of the Susquehanna, and on ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Here Died

...hear the thud of a distant gun, or the distant rifles crack, 
And Australians spring to their arms as one to drive the invaders back. 

There'll be no music or martial noise, save the guns to help you through, 
For a plain and shirt-sleeve job, my boys, is the job that we'll have to do. 
And many of those who had learned to shoot – and in learning learned to teach – 
To the last three men, and the last galoot, shall die on some lonely beach. 

But they'll waste their breath ...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

Jehovah-Nissi. The Lord My Banner

...t.
Ye feeble saints, your strength endures,
Because young David's God is yours.

Who order'd Gideon forth,
To storm the invaders' camp.
With arms of little worth,
A pitcher and a lamp?
The trumpets made his coming known
And all the host was overthrown.

Oh! I have seen the day,
When with a single word,
God helping me to say,
"My trust is in the Lord,"
My soul hath quell'd a thousand foes
Fearless of all that could oppose.

But unbelief, self-will,
Self-righteousness, and prid...Read more of this...
by Cowper, William

Paradise Lost: Book 11

...lost, all virtue lose 
And fear of God; from whom their piety feigned 
In sharp contest of battle found no aid 
Against invaders; therefore, cooled in zeal, 
Thenceforth shall practice how to live secure, 
Worldly or dissolute, on what their lords 
Shall leave them to enjoy; for the earth shall bear 
More than enough, that temperance may be tried: 
So all shall turn degenerate, all depraved; 
Justice and temperance, truth and faith, forgot; 
One man except, the only son of li...Read more of this...
by Milton, John


Song of Man XXV

...eard. 
Yet, my heart is deaf and blind. 


I suffered at the hands of despotic rulers; 
I suffered slavery under insane invaders; 
I suffered hunger imposed by tyranny; 
Yet, I still possess some inner power 
With which I struggle to great each day. 


My mind is filled, but my heart is empty; 
My body is old, but my heart is an infant. 
Perhaps in youth my heart will grow, but I 
Pray to grow old and reach the moment of 
My return to God. Only then will my heart fill! 


I w...Read more of this...
by Gibran, Kahlil

The Battle of Waterloo

...no doubt, to make a bold stand;
Then Wellington cried, " Up Guards and break their ranks through,
And chase the French invaders from off the field of Waterloo!" 

Then, in a moment, they were all on their feet,
And they met the French, sword in hand, and made them retreat;
Then Wellington in person directed the attack,
And at every point and turning the French were beaten back. 

And the road was choked and encumbered with the dead;
And, unable to stand the charge, the Frenc...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

The Wine-Cup is Circling

...t of its fame, 
That banner of Erin, towering. 
With the mingling shock 
Rung cliff and rock, 
While, rank on rank, the invaders die: 
And the shout, that last 
O'er the dying pass'd, 
Was "victory! victory!" -- the Finian's cry....Read more of this...
by Moore, Thomas

War Song

...at a tyrant should print 
The footstep of slavery there? 
No! Freedom, whose smile we shall never resign, 
Go, tell our invaders, the Danes, 
That 'tis sweeter to bleed for an age at thy shrine, 
Than to sleep but a moment in chains. 

Forget not our wounded companions who stoood
In the day of distress by our side; 
While the moss of the valley grew red with their blood, 
They stirr'd not, but conquer'd and died. 
That sun which now blesses our arms with his light, 
Saw them ...Read more of this...
by Davidson, John

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