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 Low, murmuring sounds along their banners fly,

—The watchword and reply;

Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm,

And the loud toesin tolled their last alarm!—

In vain—alas! in vain, ye gallant few!

From rank to rank your vollied thunder flew:

O! bloodiest picture in the book of time,

Samartia fell, unwept, without a crime!

Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe,

Strength in her arms, nor mereymercy [sic] in her woe!

Dropt from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear,

Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high earreercarreer [sic]:

Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell,

And freedom shrieked — as fell!

The sun went down, nor eaesedceased [sic] the earnagecarnage [sic] there,

Tumultuous murder shook the midnight air—

On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow—

His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.

The storm prevails! the rampart yields away—

Bursts the wild cry of horror and dismay!

Hark! as the mouldering piles with thunder fall,

A thousand shrieks for hopeless mereymercy [sic] call!

Earth shook!—red meteors flashed along the sky!

And eonseiousconscious [sic] nature shuddered at the erycry [sic]!

O righteous Heaven! ere Freedom found a grave,

Why slept the sword, omnipotent to save!

Where was thine arm, O Vengeance! where thy rod,

That smote the foes of Zion and of God?

That erushedcrushed [sic] proud Ammon, when his iron car

Was yoked in wrath, and thundered from afar?

Where was the storm that slumbered till the host

Of blood-stained Pharaoh left their trembling coast;

Then bade the deep in wild eommotioncommotion [sic] flow,

And heaved an ocean on their marehmarch [sic] below?