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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CANTO THIRD STONY POINT FOUR seasons in the circle blend Of yearly beauty; speeding, send Their charm of casing round the soul Of things united in the whole Of universal thought secure. Winter, with her snow-mantle pure, Conceals a waiting life from death, Ready to rise at vernal breath, Vigorous, diverse, and beautiful. She slays and hides, but dutiful In universal thought conserves A life renewed, and hope preserves. So Winter joins the old and new, A larger where a smaller grew. Three forts a passing victory brought, Eventual in disaster fraught. The Autumn of success must close, And Winter to her gloom dispose. Seventy-five like Spring had seemed, And seventy-six a Summer gleamed, And seventy-seven Autumn deemed In fruitage of a rich success. Seventy-eight the three confess Winter sister with snowy tress. October's foliaged robe was thrown Around the waning year now grown Great with success, when Donop led 1 His Hessian braves with hardy tread Against Fort Mercer at Red Bank. With slaughter mown the soldiers sank To earth, Count Donop yielded life, And vessels twain that joined the strife Upon the Delaware lay fast Upon the ground, victims at last To red-hot shot the patriots cast To burn and blow them up in vast Destruction, sorry and aghast. Fort Mifflin opposite remained Until November, when were trained Five hostile batteries at hand Upon its works upon Mud Island. Five men of war their cannon played On fort and wave, and six days brayed Their warlike yells, while undismayed The patriots stood, nor flight essayed, Until the siege at end they knew, When Thayer and Fleury safe withdrew To other shore, and famous grew. December brought the soldiers forth To Washington from the army north; And strong encamped they steadfast lay, While Howe his warriors' p...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217308793 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217308791 |
| Weight | 0.44 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $4.53 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 128 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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