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 From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to

Milford Bay,

That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war- flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on

Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each

southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling

points of fire. The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering

waves : The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's

sunless caves ! O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the

fiery herald flew: He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers

of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out

from Bristol town, And ere the day three hundred horse had met on

Clifton down; The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into

the night, And saw o'erhanging Richmond Hill the streak of

blood'- red light: Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like

silence broke, And with one start, and with one cry, the royal city

woke.

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