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226 None; but the moral's truth tells simpler so.—

As the ground was before, thus let it be;—

How that red rain hath made the harvest grow!

And is this all the world has gained by thee,

Thou first and last of Fields! king-making Victory?

XVIII.

And Harold stands upon this place of skulls,

The grave of France, the deadly Waterloo!

How in an hour the Power which gave annuls

Its gifts, transferring fame as fleeting too!—

In "pride of place" here last the Eagle flew,N1

Then tore with bloody talon the rent plain,