ART thou a patriot, traveller? on this field Did Falkland fall, the blameless and the brave, Beneath a tyrant's banners: dost thou boast Of loyal ardour? Hampden perished here, The rebel Hampden, at whose glorious name The heart of every honest Englishman Beats high with conscious pride. Both uncorrupt, Friends to their common country both, they fought, They died in adverse armies. Traveller! If with thy neighbour thou shouldst not accord, In charity remember these good men, And quell each angry and injurious thought. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FACADE: 1. PERE AMELOT by EDITH SITWELL 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER by RUPERT BROOKE ON CRITICS; IN IMITATION OF ANACREON by MATTHEW PRIOR WINTER RAIN by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI AMORETTI: 19 by EDMUND SPENSER TO A CAT by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |