Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Dunbar | | Near Dunbar | | Robert Leighton (1822–1869) |
| | | HERE Cromwell stood, that dark and frowning night, | |
| Hemmed in upon this desperate tongue of land, | |
| The sea behind, the sea on either hand, | |
| And, fronting him, the foe on yonder height. | |
| What chance for Cromwell in to-morrow’s fight, | 5 |
| If thus the order of the battle stand! | |
| He was but captain, the supreme command | |
| He knew was His who, to the most lorn right, | |
| Oft gives mysterious victory. And so, | |
| Armed with this faith, of fear he never dreamed. | 10 |
| For ever with that man a Power there seemed, | |
| That conquered first the judgment of his foe, | |
| Then gave an easy field. So would it be | |
| With all who owned as deep a trust as he. | | | | |
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