Thanks to those festal fires! mankind shall be All brothers now! since France and England met, The far-seen glow of their great amity Hangs on the world's horizons: they have set A glorious fashion! On the illumined flood Their two great navies, like some mighty raft, Rode in their oneness; without spleen or craft, They met in light - God saw that it was good; And, oh! those long-drawn rockets, how they climbed, To fill the very heaven with tricolors! What healths we drank, by booming cannon timed! And how the city swarmed from all her doors To greet the Frenchman on our English shores! And how the bells of welcome pealed and chimed! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POOR POLL by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 45. ALLAH-AL-MUJIB by EDWIN ARNOLD EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 31. 'TIS YIELDING GAINS THE LOVER VICTORY by PHILIP AYRES THE LORD OF THOULOUSE; A LEGEND OF LANGUEDOC by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 19. THE SOUTHERN PASSION by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) POET FLAYS TEMPTATIONS OF CITY LIFE by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP |