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MONTGOMERY AT QUEBEC by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER

Poet Analysis

First Line: SWORD IN HAND HE WAS SLAIN
Last Line: AND THE RIVER ROLLING PAST.
Subject(s): MONTGOMERY, RICHARD (1738-1775); QUEBEC, BATTLE OF (1775);

Sword in hand he was slain;
The snow his winding sheet;
The grinding ice at his feet --
The river moaning in pain.

Pity and peace at last;
Flowers for him today
Above on the battlements gray --
And the river rolling past.



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