Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHERE ARE THE MEN, by JOHN JONES (1810-1869)


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First Line: Where are the men who went forth in the morning
Last Line: Silent and deep is their watery grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Talhaiarn
Subject(s): War


WHERE are the men who went forth in the
morning,
Hope brightly beaming in every face?
Fearing no danger, -- the Saxon foe scorning, --
Little thought they of defeat or disgrace!
Fallen is their chieftain -- his glory departed --
Fallen are the heroes who fought by his side!
Fatherless children now weep, broken-hearted,
Mournfully wandering by Rhuddlan's dark tide!

Small was the band that escaped from the slaugh-
ter,
Flying for life as the tide 'gan to flow;
Hast thou no pity, thou dark rolling water?
More cruel still than the merciless foe!
Death is behind them, and death is before them;
Faster and faster rolls on the dark wave;
One wailing cry -- and the sea closes o'er them;
Silent and deep is their watery grave.




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