Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Belgium: Waterloo | | Song | | Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
| | | WHEN Napoleon was flying | |
| From the field of Waterloo, | |
| A British soldier, dying, | |
| To his brother bade adieu! | |
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| “And take,” he said, “this token | 5 |
| To the maid that owns my faith, | |
| With the words that I have spoken | |
| In affection’s latest breath.” | |
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| Sore mourned the brother’s heart, | |
| When the youth beside him fell; | 10 |
| But the trumpet warned to part, | |
| And they took a sad farewell. | |
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| There was many a friend to lose him, | |
| For that gallant soldier sighed; | |
| But the maiden of his bosom | 15 |
| Wept when all their tears were dried. | | | | |
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