...signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms,— the Battle's magnificently stern array I never wed another — Znleika II am not thy brother..." XL " ОЫ not my brother ! — yet unsay — Go owu clay shall cover, heap'd and pent, Kider and horse,— friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...

...then in stanza 28 the entire account becomes the prologue to the terrible bloodshed of 'friend, foe': Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay. Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent. Rider and horse, -...

...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, 245 Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight...The morn the marshalling in arms, - the day Battle's magnificently-stern array! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent 250 The earth is cover'd...

...thronged the citizens, with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips—the foe ! they come! they com* 1 L,ast noon beheld them full of lusty life! Last eve...beauty's circle proudly gay ! The midnight brought the signal sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms—the day Battle's magnificicntly stern array...

...the citizens, with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips— the fo« ! they come ! they com* l Last noon beheld them full of lusty life ! Last eve...beauty's circle proudly gay ! The midnight brought the signal sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magni6cicntly stern array...

...though not patriotic thoughts, as the lines from Byron's Childe Harold (3.28) attached to it indicate: Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...The morn the marshalling in arms, - the day Battle's magnificently-stern array! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is cover'd thick...

...mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. z8 Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently-stern array! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent 20 1. 226 Cameron's gathering:...

...lines from Childe Harold printed against the number given to the oil in the RA exhibition catalogue: Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling of arms,—the day Battles magnificently-stern array! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when...