StoryTitle("caps", "The Beleaguered City") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I have read, in some old marvellous tale", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Some legend strange and vague,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That a midnight host of spectres pale", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Beleaguered the walls of Prague.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beside the Moldau's rushing stream.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With the wan moon overhead,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There stood, as in an awful dream,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The army of the dead.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "White as a sea-fog, landward bound,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The spectral camp was seen,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, with a sorrowful, deep sound,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The river flowed between.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No other voice nor sound was there,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No drum, nor sentry's pace;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mist-like banners clasped the air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As clouds with clouds embrace.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, when the old cathedral bell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Proclaimed the morning prayer,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The white pavilions rose and fell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the alarmed air.", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "Down the broad valley fast and far", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The troubled army fled;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up rose the glorious morning star,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The ghastly host was dead.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I have read, in the marvellous heart of man,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That strange and mystic scroll,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That an army of phantoms vast and wan", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Beleaguer the human soul.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Encamped beside Life's rushing stream,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In Fancy's misty light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gigantic shapes and shadows gleam", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Portentous through the night.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon its midnight battle-ground", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The spectral camp is seen,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, with a sorrowful, deep sound,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Flows the River of Life between.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No other voice, nor sound is there,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the army of the grave;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No other challenge breaks the air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But the rushing of Life's wave.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, when the solemn and deep church-bell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Entreats the soul to pray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The midnight phantoms feel the spell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The shadows sweep away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down the broad Vale of Tears afar", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The spectral camp is fled;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Faith shineth as a morning star,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our ghastly fears are dead.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>