Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 10. BRITONS VS. BARBARIANS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH


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First Line: Rise! - they have risen: of brave aneurin ask
Last Line: And everlasting deeds to burning words!


RISE! -- they 'have' risen: of brave Aneurin ask
How they have scourged old foes, perfidious friends:
The Spirit of Caractacus descends
Upon the Patriots, animates their task; --
Amazement runs before the towering casque
Of Arthur, bearing through the stormy field
The virgin sculptured on his Christian shield: --
Stretched in the sunny light of victory bask
The Host that followed Urien as he strode
O'er heaps of slain; -- from Cambrian wood and moss
Druids descend, auxiliars of the Cross;
Bards, nursed on blue Plinlimmon's still abode,
Rush on the fight, to harps preferring swords,
And everlasting deeds to burning words!






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